With all these stories of cannibals in the Caribbean during colonial times, some of it must be true, right? There are disputes about whether it actually happened, or if the colonists were just afraid of the natives to such an extent that they attributed their worst fears to them.
Well, if it’s Robinson Crusoe telling the […]

Hannibal Lector prides himself on having exquisite taste in all things, not just food. He loves fine classical music, great art, wines and liqueurs. He buys only the best in cars, knives, perfumes, clothes, cookware. He can afford to be choosy, but he also takes what he wants and manipulates people and situations to his […]

So as part of my food travel adventures, I found myself reading Hannibal by Thomas Harris. I had seen the movie, so I was all prepared for the whole brain eating episode. I’m not as big on organ meat as Dr. Lector is, but I love chicken hearts, and I suspect that, prepared the right […]

I sometimes think much of the morality we have manufactured over the centuries comes from humans attempting to deny that they are also animals. After all, the “original sin” is sex, something that we must do to procreate, as animals. So then the next thing to moralize about is what we eat, which again, we […]