This paper examines how food and nutrition function in Julian Barnes's writings, emphasizing the ways in which culinary themes represent memory, identity, class, and existential reflection. This study explores how Barnes uses food to delve deeper into thematic concerns and reflect on individual and societal anxieties through a close reading of Flaubert's Parrot (1984), The Pedant in the Kitchen (2003), and The Sense of an Ending (2011). In Barnes' fiction and nonfiction, food serves as more than just nourishment; it also serves as a prism through which characters explore their history, struggle with nostalgia, and address more general philosophical issues. His interaction with food also highlights social structures and class differences, showing how eating habits influence relationships and identity.This paper also discusses The Pedant in the Kitchen's Romanian translation, examining how culturally specific culinary terms are modified for a new audience. The study concentrates on nouns and noun phrases pertaining to cooking, ingredients, kitchen tools, and meals because food vocabulary is primarily nominal. The analysis takes into account the translation techniques used, especially the approximation of dish names and the restoration of irony and humor in a new linguistic and cultural context. This work highlights how culinary allusions improve character development and thematic depth by placing Barnes within the larger tradition of British authors who employ food as a narrative device. Food acts as a link between the concrete and the abstract in Barnes' writing, reflecting a complex interaction between the material and the philosophical. Through in-depth textual analysis and comparative discussions, this study reveals how culinary imagery enhances storytelling and adds to Barnes's wider literary and cultural commentary, placing his engagement with food within the larger discourse of food studies in literature.