Anthony Burgess was just cool — a world traveler, linguist, novelist and thinker. In 1962 he wrote two different novels about crazy future worlds, the most popular, of course, being A Clockwork Orange because Stanley Kubrick went off and made a movie about it.
While I think Clockwork is thought provoking and a great display of […]

I read The Road during the 2009 road trip travels. In this post-apocolyptic world, the father-son duo travels across country in search of cans and crumbs of food to keep themselves alive. And while they’re searching, they have to keep from being eaten by all the crazies on the road.
So I’m still debating about seeing […]

Over lunch with my man yesterday, I was feeling a little insecure when I said, “Sometimes I feel like I’m normal.” Then he answered, “Do normal people obsess over cannibalism while discussing food?” And that reassured me. I’m feeling much better now.
We were discussing survival cannibalism before, and my mother-in-law brought up Cabeza de Vaca, […]

A friend asked me when I was going to stop dwelling on the morbid and start talking about something lighter, perhaps the erotic aspects of food. The problem is that I have a certain goal in mind, and I’m just not there yet. There are two more books to cover on the topic of cannibalism […]