Toronto’s Vegan Food Stylist: Movie Monsters made me do it.
I confess. I was a Gluten Vegan Skeptic As a food stylist, I first gained a world-wide reputation for my work on NBC’s Hannibal, so meat has always been my métier. Easy for me - after all, I’m an avid...
View ArticleAMGods Ep 108: Come to Jesus /pt 1
Harsh windsMay toss the darling budsUproot the shooting sprouts If Spring's countenance clouds over And thunders vengeanceOn silly Summer's love.Food glorious food! The scene where Shadow meets Easter...
View ArticleAmGods Ep 107 A Prayer for Mad Sweeney
For want of a heartA coin is lostFor want of a coinA kingdom is lostFaith is lost.Madness.At last! Food in the script! Screen snacks! A lot of the food I made for this episode fell in the unappetizing...
View ArticleAmGods Ep 105 Lemon-Scented You
The kiss that awakesThe spark that startsA volcano in your heart.You must follow. At last we get to the beating heart of the matter: Shadow has a brilliant light that Laura can see now that...
View ArticleAmGods Ep 104 - Git Gone
I lean in but then I check right out.I don't flinch because it doesn't hurt.What is god if there's no one there.And there's no proofThat you ever caredAbout me....
View ArticleAmerican Gods ep103 Head Full of Snow
There’s a starmanWaiting in the skyHe’d like to come and meet usBut he thinks he’d blow our mindsHey that’s far out – you heard him too!Switch on the tvWe may pick him up on channel 2...
View ArticleAmericanGods Ep 102 - Secret of the Spoons
More Godsplaining and recipes for Zorya's dinnerStunned into silenceShocked into shameSpirit sparking flamesFevers the bloodThat boils so hot:Burns that will not heal.I know this is a food styling...
View ArticleAmericanGods 101 Bone Orchard
Godsplaining and recipes for Chili and Gold CoinsHannibal axed. Oblivion.Then inexorably, that rosy-fingered dawn appearsAnd once again, Apollo casts his gold lassoAcross the turquoise domeAnd tows us...
View ArticleCrunchy Roll from YOI: After Hannibal and Before American Gods - we still...
While we wait for H4NNIBAL and until Spring 17 when American Gods premiers, I've been having a bit of a break from blogging.Fannibals at NYComicCon gathered to get their Feeding Hannibal cookbooks...
View ArticleEpisode 13: Wrath of the Lamb
Twisted torment of our livesSwallowed by the lashing seaRed moon burns the dark of nightA silent searing scream.Bedelia...have you wonyour second chance to lose this deadly game of love.Wha...ARE THEY...
View ArticleEpisode 12 Tome wan
Endless loopSwimming slipping surgingNever reaching the end.Only a quantum leapWill take youTo the other side.Renewed.This episode is named for Tome wan, the penultimate course of a Kaiseki dinner. A...
View ArticleEpisode 11 Ko ko Mono
SongbirdSurrounded by the scent of deathCagedYet singing Still This episode is named for Ko ko Mono, the course of preserved vegetables that signals the beginning of the end of the Kaiseki dinner....
View ArticleEpisode 10 Naka choko
Cat and mouse.Claw. Tooth. Fang.When mouse becomes mouserand brings its catchto drop at the feet of its masterTenderly,Mouser becomes master. This episode is named for Naka choko, a course in a...
View ArticleEpisode 9 Suziikana
Gnashing teethClashing knivesA mask for the child in the beast in the man. Innocence or ignoranceInstinct or willPushing deeper, rising up. Wild like the windDriven like the snowDrowned like the sound...
View ArticleEp 8 Suza kana
Peter and ClarkWill and Hannibal.Cowbird in a robin’s egg. Hatched or hatchetedBreaking shells won’t free them now. The driver and the drivenLeashed together in their bloody tug of war.Suza Kana is the...
View ArticleEpisode 7 Yakimoto
Stumbling down blind alleysBloodless tears stain your cheek, Looking too closeYou cannot see.Twins in the dark.Killer be killed.Be free and bleed.This episode of Hannibal is named Yakimono -- the...
View ArticleEpisode 6 Futamono
Pacing…Cold cold heartHeart of stone.Beats alone. Pairing…Cold cold feetFeet of clay.Walk away.Futamono is the mid-meal course in Kaiseki of a small but robust soup or stew served in a lidded bowl. We...
View ArticleEpisode 5 Muko zuki
Slice of lifeSlice of pieSidekick thrust aside. Beverly.A cut too deep. In a kaiseki dinner, Mukozuki is a small side dish of slices of raw and rare seasonal fish – sashimi. It is set on the far...
View ArticleEpisode 3 Hassun
Death...Grinning from ear To ear. Justice and revenge Best served cold. His breath a sentence serving life. Hassun is the second course of a Kaiseki dinner - so named because of the size of the...
View ArticleEpisode 2 Saki-zuke
HuesAnd cries:Your prayerYour pain.You see your god watchingThrough your own eyes.Gone in a blink.Sakizuki is the first course in a formal Kaiseki dinner. …a sampling of small appetizers whose...
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