Food and literature: Food as a chronotope

Food, as a classical term, is the basic instinct of life. Apart from being a vital process that causes the continuation of human being's biological life, food helps to form some necessary social gatherings, rituals, form culturally different societies and each society has its own characteristics. Every aspects of life take part in literature so in this term it is impossible to think food apart from literature. The relationship between food and literature is the starting point of this study and here in this study it is aimed to highlight if food can be considered as a chronotope according to Bakhtin's chronotope theory.