Episode 20: Contains Homeopathic Quantities of Meat
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Welcome to the January Episode of the SF Squeecast! Episode 20 is called “Contains Homeopathic Quantities of Meat.” This episode features the SF Squeecast regulars Elizabeth Bear, Paul Cornell, Seanan McGuire, Lynne M. Thomas, and Catherynne M. Valente! In this episode we squeed about:
- Antiquities and Tangibles by Tim Pratt (shared by Lynne M. Thomas)
- SF/F Food Blogs including Cooking the Books, Food Through the Pages, Inn at the Crossroads , Fictional Food, and Eating Authors (shared by Elizabeth Bear)
- 2000 AD “Trifecta” (shared by Paul Cornell)
- d’Aulaire’s Book of Greek Myths and d’Aulaire’s Book of Norse Myths by Ingri and Edgar Parin d’Aulaire (shared by Catherynne M. Valente)
- Unspoken by Sarah Rees Brennan (shared by Seanan McGuire)
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Additional credits: Special thanks to our webmaster, Dmitri Zagidulin, our technical producer David McHone-Chase, Jeff Bohnhoff at Mystic Fig Studios for the instrumentals of music by Seanan McGuire, Katy Shuttleworth, who made our ROCKING logo, and Michael Damian Thomas for general administrative support.
January 18th, 2013 at 10:44 am
[…] week, the fantastic crew at sfsqueecast talked about food and fiction and they mention several blogs including the amazing Inn at the […]
January 18th, 2013 at 11:18 am
I didn’t remember the title and author…but when I saw the cover art on Amazon–YES, I read this in the library!
January 18th, 2013 at 1:37 pm
Great to hear the background and endorsement of the d’Aulaire books. My whole family loves them! I highly recommend them to kids who are fans of Rick Riordan’s Greek-based series.
January 21st, 2013 at 2:02 pm
The D’Aulaire’s Greek Myth book was the one I remember using in grade school when we studied mythology. Interesting, I don’t remember ever covering Norse myths — Greek, Roman and Egyptian mostly.
The Anne McCaffrey cookbooks mentioned are Serve it Forth and Cooking Out of this World. They were released by Wildside Press in the 1990s. Also suggest food manga if you like salivating over things you’ll never eat/drink: Viz published 7 volumes of Oishinbo A La Carte and available digitally. Vertical published four volumes of Drops of God on wine.
February 4th, 2013 at 11:13 pm
I held the record for checking the D’Aulaire’s book of Greek Mythology at the Tuscaloosa library for a long time. My mom was 37 when I was born and was raising me alone at 40. She didn’t know very many fairy tales, but she was taking a Greek Mythology class at the University while trying to finish her degree. So, I got Zeus and Hera and Hercules instead of Cinderella and Snow White. I went to kindergarten knowing who Perseus was and what he did. It probably warped me, but I kind of like who I am now, so it’s all good.
March 4th, 2013 at 5:09 am
What a fun segment on food in fiction! I love this topic and even organized a discussion panel about it for the recent “Life the Universe, & Everything” science fiction & fantasy symposium.
I’m also a youth book blogger and over the past year or so have found my review posts leaning steadily toward the topic of food, insomuch that I finally embraced my passion and started an new site called “Food Adventures (in fiction!)” with recipes and photos for foods from books, video games, and movies/TV. Food in fiction is just such a happy thing!
My book blog’s food page:
http://www.book-adventures.com/p/books-food.html
Food Adventures (in fiction!):
http://fictionfood.blogspot.com/
Thanks again for talking about food in fiction!