Exploring and improving our relationship with death through respectful enquiry. Here you’ll find conversations with those who work with the dead and grieving, in addition to episodes examining death through a lens of history & the arts, folklore and food.
We’ll take you from ancient funerary rituals to forensic anthropologists via green burials, disaster recovery and Persephone’s pomegranates. We hope the journey & stories will provide you with some of the knowledge and empathy you need to navigate this vast hidden world as well as shine a light on the kindness and tenderness displayed by those professionals who truly take care of our dead.
Contact: A Question of Death
About the Episode
A discursive conversation with the wonderful Dr Alessandra Pino exploring the complex relationship between food and death in fiction. We discussed The Garden Party by Katharine Mansfield, Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl, Strong Poison by Dorothy L Sayers and the novels of Andrea Camilleri. There are definitely spoilers plus my recipe for leftover lamb shawarma which I am worryingly pleased about when you consider the subject matter we are discussing at that stage in the conversation. I also can’t promise we won’t make you yearn for amazing Sicilian food by the end.
Allie is releasing The Gothic Cookbook Hauntingly Delicious Recipes Inspired by 13 Classic Tales on 24 September in the US and 3 October in the UK. This is a simply gorgeous book and released just in time for the darker months of the year. Allie is the co-host of the Fear Feasts podcast with Vanessa Baca as well as the co-host of the A is for Apple podcast alongside Sam Bilton and Neil Buttery.
You can find Allie on Instagram @sasacharlie and on X at @foodforflo
About the Podcast
Exploring and improving our relationship with death through respectful enquiry.
Here you’ll find conversations with those who work with the dead and grieving, in addition to episodes examining death through a lens of history & the arts, folklore and food.
We’ll take you from ancient funerary rituals to forensic anthropologists via green burials, disaster recovery and Persephone’s pomegranates. We hope the journey & stories will provide you with some of the knowledge and empathy you need to navigate this vast hidden world as well as shine a light on the kindness and tenderness displayed by those professionals who truly take care of our dead.
Contact: A Question of Death