“Are you not afraid of death?” Carlo Collodi’s Pinocchio (1883) is a tumultuous and winding morality tale of a little wooden puppet who wants to be a real boy. (I was originally going to say …
Creepy Pasta (Squid Ink Pasta with Octopus and Burrata) | Slender Man
This post originally appeared on Nightmare on Film Street The Slender Man mythology, originating from a creepypasta story on the Something Awful forums sometime in 2009, has wound its way through our society, from spooky …
Linguine with Clam Sauce | Weetzie Bat
You are in my blood. I cant help it. We can’t be anywhere except together. Weetzie Bat by Francesca Lia Block is a glittery glam fairy tale, full of enchanting characters living deliciously on a …
Homemade Strega Liqueur
Strega is a sweet and herbally Italian liqueur, created in 1860 by Guiseppe Alberti, who founded a distillery with his father Carmine Vincenzo Alberti in Benevento, known as the city of witches. Benevento has a …
Olive Oil Braised Veggies
I am a prolific veggie roaster. After sweeping in from work, before I’ve even taken off my heels I’ve got the oven heated and chopped veggies with little more than olive oil, sea salt and …
Spring Ribollita
I have a well documented love of peasant food (see Castilian garlic soup, and over on our Fiction Kitchen podcast site, Cinderella cassoulet), so of course I adore ribollita which is essentially bean and bread …