Fear Feasts

Some witches are old and scary. Some witches are tall and intimidating. Some witches are young and sexy. All witches are potentially dangerous, and the wine-loving, maggot-spreading, chicken drumstick-eating stregas at Tanz Akademie in Berlin run the gamut. This ain't Hogwarts, honey! Join us as we discuss ballet, witchcraft, Nazi Germany, maggots, the importance of red wine when you're sick, the challenges in flushing drugged food down the toilet, the difficulties in finishing a communal witch meal when your coven leader cuts her own throat over all the food (oh the damn blood) and the connections between food in horror in Dario Argento's giallo classic Suspiria, and the 2018 remake. Those maggots are looking mighty tasty, aren't they......

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A diabolically delicious taste of next week's episode!

When you're a witch, you can summon the Devil. But when your two best friends are also witches and you summon not just the Devil but the Daryl Van Horne, you're in for some horny times! Daryl loves beautiful witches, tennis, pianos, swimming pools, recording the greatest fears of his witch lady friends, and of course, he loves his fruit.....cherries in particular. Be more like Daryl, and join us as we discuss motherhood, kitchen spells, zucchini and its many uses, sex, chocolate, misogyny, the varied ways a witch can utilize cherries, and of course witchcraft as we analyze the connection between food and horror in the 1987 film The Witches of Eastwick and the novel of the same name by John Updike!

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A lustfully luscious taste of next week's episode!

We're sharing a little hint of tasty terrors to come in Season 3, when we take on the connections between food and horror in witch literature and films, or as we like to call it, the Season of the Bitch......er, I mean, Witch! Season of the Witch is coming your way in two weeks, so please join us!

The joys of marriage are highly overrated, at least if you're a timid soul whose new husband was widowed less than a year ago, he brings you to live in and run his vast mansion on the coast, and his scary housekeeper keeps trying to turn you into a replica of the dead first wife. Even worse, you can't get any servants to bring you tea and crumpets under the chestnut tree without them laughing behind your back. It's enough to make you want to jump from the 3rd-story window, or maybe even burn the mansion to the ground. Well, you could always toast some marshmallows in the flames and make S'mores, right? We're talking marriage, murder, menus, mayhem, mealtimes, and the scariest M of all......Mrs. Danvers......as we analyze the connection between food and horror in Daphne Du Maurier's classic Gothic tale Rebecca and the Hitchcock film of the same name. So grab your dog Jasper, a cup of tea and a broken figurine and join us!

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A terrifyingly taste of next week's episode!

We are cracking nuts and getting our stockings stuffed here in Fear Feast Land as we talk with Dr. Neil Buttery about his favorite Christmas movie of all time, Gremlins! Gremlins is a bizarre 80s film produced by Steven Spielberg about a cute little furry animal that turns into a host of horrifying creatures once being fed after midnight, and the subsequent chaos that ensues. Don't eat after midnight, kids, that's all we have to say about it!

Dr. Buttery is the host of "The British Food History Podcast," available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and anywhere you get your podcast fix. He is also the author of A Dark History of Sugar, winner of the Best First Book Category at the Guild of Food Writers in September 2023.

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If you thought taking care of your own kids was hard, be glad you're not some nameless governess charged with caring for two little angels on an isolated estate, complete with ghosts, possessions and very little food. Or, be grateful you're the governess in the TV miniseries version, where there are still angelic kids, a big, spooky house filled with ghosts, and a ton of food! We'll discuss memory, grief, trauma, gin and tonic, teatime, the care and feeding of turtles, the nature of ghosts and sex, bangers and mash, the difference between shepherd's pie and cottage pie, and analyze the connection between food and horror in Henry James' horror classic The Turn of the Screw, the 1961 film version The Innocents, and the 2020 Netflix series The Haunting of Bly Manor. Grab your pet turtle, a pot of tea, or a bottle of red wine from the cellars of Bly Manor and join us!

-A deliciously deviant taste of what's coming up next week!