Food of My People

Eating is a symbolic and magical act, a transformation, a covenant, a ritual, a comfort, a necessity.

Food is often integral to the magic, the meetings, the processes of fantastic fiction: from myth and legend to high fantasy, from hard-science-fiction to post-modern magic realism. And whether in Hansel and Gretel or Soylent Green, the myth of Persephone or 2001, Alice in Wonderland or Alien, food-themed stories offer a mixed menu of good and evil, light and darkness.

In this versatile collection, Candas Jane Dorsey and Ursula Pflug – both award-winning senior writers of literary speculation – have gathered a delectable buffet of genre writing that explores our attraction to the candy coating and our fascination with the poisoned apple.

Paired with each story is a recipe, real or fantastical, to consume with pleasure… or at your own risk!

Featuring: Richard Van Camp, Casey June Wolf, Desirae May, Lisa Carreiro, Kate Story, Sang Kim, Chris Kuriata, Kathy Nguyen, Colleen Anderson, Tapanga Koe, Joe Davies, Nathan Adler, Elisha May Rubacha, Lynn Hutchinson Lee, Sally McBride, Melissa Yuan-Innes, Liz Westbrook-Trenholm, Sheung-King, Gord Grisenthwaite, and Geoffrey W. Cole.

Enjoy this great review from Black Gate: Adventures in Fantasy Literature