Fear Feasts

A podcast hosted by @dr_alessandra_p & @foodinbooks that analyses the horror genre-films 🎥 and literature📚-through the use and symbolism of food 🥚

[Fear Feasts @fear_feasts]

Fear Feasts is back 🍎🖤

In Snow White, food is never innocent. Apples, hearts, hunger, and desire become tools of threat, temptation, and control. This episode explores food, fear, and power in the classic tale and its darker reimaginings.

https://t.co/aWFLNxbzqO

[Dr Alessandra Pino @Dr_Alessandra_P]

The Pale Man’s banquet. Vidal’s table. Hunger, power, resistance & rebellion.
In our latest @fear_feasts , we explore the food symbolism of Pan’s Labyrinth. Still discovering new things in this film nearly 20 years later. Grateful to @RealGDT for that.

🎧 https://t.co/EYpEK4gR1J

[Dr Alessandra Pino @Dr_Alessandra_P]

In this episode of A Curious Appetite, I’m joined by food stylist Dorothy Barrick (@dotscookin), whose work brings food to life on screen in ways that are often invisible, but absolutely essential!

https://t.co/cNX9xesnHK

[Nick Holland @Nick_Holland_]

In my new post we look at the Brontes and Mothering Sunday: https://t.co/Lekh9vHm8F

[Fear Feasts @fear_feasts]

Check out our latest episode on Tale of Tales (2015) Monstrous appetites, food and folklore:

https://t.co/eX6XIYd5eT

[Dr Alessandra Pino @Dr_Alessandra_P]

Bring your curiosity (and maybe your favourite cheese…)

Join me for a delightfully strange and seasonal deep dive into cheese divination…yes, tyromancy! I’ll be joined by Jennifer Billock @KitchenWitchJB bona fide cheese divination expert, for a festive reading. 🧀🔮

[Dr Alessandra Pino @Dr_Alessandra_P]

🧀✨ Serve It Forth – Christmas Bonus Episode TOMORROW! ✨🧀

https://t.co/THeh6WBDMT

Come along for this special Serve It Forth Christmas Bonus Edition on

📅 11 December
⏰ 7:00–8:45pm GMT

with @neilbuttery & Sam Bilton

[Dr Alessandra Pino @Dr_Alessandra_P]

New publication ✨
My article “Ropa Vieja: A Colonial Stew of Global Threads” is out now in The Recipes Project’s Autumn 2025 issue, Globalizing Early Modern Recipes!

Read: https://t.co/PgAIfo4Iu3

#RopaVieja #FoodHistory #TheRecipesProject #CulinaryHistory #GlobalRecipes

[Dr Alessandra Pino @Dr_Alessandra_P]

Practising for Halloween. I think this might be my better side 🎃☠️🧛🏼‍♀️

[Fear Feasts @fear_feasts]

The food horrors in Little Red Riding Hood out today on @fear_feasts 🧺🐺

https://t.co/zXRU2bBN64

[Dr Alessandra Pino @Dr_Alessandra_P]

There’s something very M.R. James about today’s South Dublin tale…a shadowy figure first glimpsed at a distance, drawing ever nearer after an afternoon in the library… 📚👤 #Uncanny @danny_robins

https://t.co/O8i48EBgSr

[Dr Alessandra Pino @Dr_Alessandra_P]

This morning’s spooky dose of Uncanny with @danny_robins - 👧🏼 ‘inherited’ memories or paranormal dreams? It sent shivers down my spine!! https://t.co/USnN3VyaDM

[Fear Feasts @fear_feasts]

https://t.co/orWlISAmKG

[Fear Feasts @fear_feasts]

Food, horror and fairy tales…what could go wrong? Season 5 coming soon 🎃

[Dr Alessandra Pino @Dr_Alessandra_P]

My work on dark food has been published in The Palgrave Handbook of Literary Memory Studies.

Very pleased to finally hold a physical copy @Palgrave

It’s a privilege to have my work on dark food included in this volume alongside such excellent scholarship.

[Dr Alessandra Pino @Dr_Alessandra_P]

@hauntedmagazine #47 is out! I explore how fear is crafted on stage, from high-tech effects to candlelit performances, spotlighting @Adam_Zed’s 10 years of haunting theatre, writing, and online ghost story magic.

[Paul Stevenson ❤️👻💙 @hauntedmagazine]

WATCH THE SKIES ★★★☆☆

Watch the Skies is a tender core wrapped in cosmic chaos. It is an uneven but affecting genre blend, part satirical sci-fi, part intimate character study. Think Interstellar meets Ad Astra by way of Don’t Look Up, with a touch of There’s Something in the Barn thrown in for good measure.

At the heart of the film is a quietly moving story: a young woman’s unwavering search for her father, lost somewhere between conspiracy, starlight, and silence. As the world spirals into panic over mysterious lights and state secrets, she refuses to give up. What makes her journey compelling isn’t just her grief- it’s her courage to go against the pack, to believe in something bigger when everyone else gives in to fear, mockery, or apathy.

That emotional thread grounds the absurdity, giving the film its most memorable moments. The tonal swings—between eerie, moving, and downright goofy—don’t always hit the mark. But its bold visuals, ambitious ideas, and raw emotional centre make Watch the Skies worth a look, even if not all its signals come through clearly.
Dr. Alessandra Pino, Haunted Magazine
★★★☆☆

Watch Watch the Skies @ShowcaseCinemas from 11/7/2025 #WatchTheSkies

[Dr Alessandra Pino @Dr_Alessandra_P]

Delighted to be speaking at this event on 30th May about food, cultural memory- and horror, of course!

[Dr Neil Buttery @neilbuttery]

Did you miss @Dr_Alessandra_P and my 'Monsters & their Meals' last year? Well here it is on my YouTube channel for your viewing pleasure. We discuss food in Gothic literature and some real foods that are stranger than fiction!

https://t.co/o20TQCATQ9

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Have you listened to our latest episode?
The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires 🧛🏼‍♀️

https://t.co/kytnvKTPs9