I've noticed that in the Chronicles of Narnia (written in the early 1950s), C.S. Lewis frequently included rich, detailed descriptions of the food. Knowing about the situation with rationing in the UK at the time helps put it in context.
Or maybe Lewis was just a foodie.
It was a fine meal after the Calormene fashion. I don't know whether you would have liked it or not, but Shasta did. There were lobsters, and salad, and snipe stuffed with almonds and truffles, and a complicated dish made of chicken-livers and rice and raisins and nuts, and there were cool melons and gooseberry fools and mulberry fools, and every kind of nice thing that can be made with ice. There was also a little flagon of the sort of wine that is called "white" though it is really yellow."The Horse and His Boy," Chapter V
Not to mention Anne Mcaffery’s Dragon Rider of Pern books. I’ve heard GRRM does a lot of food porn in his fire and ice series, but have never read those books.
It was a fine meal after the Calormene fashion. I don't know whether you would have liked it or not, but Shasta did. There were lobsters, and salad, and snipe stuffed with almonds and truffles, and a complicated dish made of chicken-livers and rice and raisins and nuts, and there were cool melons and gooseberry fools and mulberry fools, and every kind of nice thing that can be made with ice. There was also a little flagon of the sort of wine that is called "white" though it is really yellow. "The Horse and His Boy," Chapter V