The Uncanny Gastronomic

“All I can tell you is that I think it was pig’s meat.” “You mean you’re not sure?” “One can never be sure.”A brush with the mushroom devil whets the appetite. The meat at the werewolf’s table is a dish to relish. Dessert with London’s cannibal club may be the cherry on top.From fairy tales and folklore focused on magical foods and strange eating came an enduring tradition of writers playing with food and the uncanny. In the fiction of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries this... Zobrazit více