Dr_Alessandra_P
@alessandrapino.bsky.social
Food historian, author, podcaster, lover of the supernatural & all things horror. www.alessandrapino.com
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Thank you to everyone who came to the @derbydracula talk on Food in Dracula today- there’s nothing I love more than bringing people over to the dark side (of food) 🖤
November 12, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Thank you to everyone who came to the @derbydracula talk on Food in Dracula today- there’s nothing I love more than bringing people over to the dark side (of food) 🖤
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Lovely meeting you, today🤗
November 8, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Lovely meeting you, today🤗
Excited to meet @nuzo.bsky.social tonight!! Her new book Futility is out!
November 8, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Excited to meet @nuzo.bsky.social tonight!! Her new book Futility is out!
New publication ✨
Delighted to share that 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 it here: recipes.hypotheses.org/26459
#FoodHistory #CulinaryHistory #TheRecipesProject #RopaVieja
Delighted to share that 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 it here: recipes.hypotheses.org/26459
#FoodHistory #CulinaryHistory #TheRecipesProject #RopaVieja
November 1, 2025 at 9:42 AM
New publication ✨
Delighted to share that 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 it here: recipes.hypotheses.org/26459
#FoodHistory #CulinaryHistory #TheRecipesProject #RopaVieja
Delighted to share that 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 it here: recipes.hypotheses.org/26459
#FoodHistory #CulinaryHistory #TheRecipesProject #RopaVieja
When the mist comes, lie still. Pretend to be dead.
But his wife slipped up- and came back changed. Now she hums in the kitchen, eyes blind and blue. The town says he must end it. But how do you kill what still sings with the voice you love?
#AScareADay #ThePathSheSings
@romgothsam.bsky.social
But his wife slipped up- and came back changed. Now she hums in the kitchen, eyes blind and blue. The town says he must end it. But how do you kill what still sings with the voice you love?
#AScareADay #ThePathSheSings
@romgothsam.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 9:34 PM
When the mist comes, lie still. Pretend to be dead.
But his wife slipped up- and came back changed. Now she hums in the kitchen, eyes blind and blue. The town says he must end it. But how do you kill what still sings with the voice you love?
#AScareADay #ThePathSheSings
@romgothsam.bsky.social
But his wife slipped up- and came back changed. Now she hums in the kitchen, eyes blind and blue. The town says he must end it. But how do you kill what still sings with the voice you love?
#AScareADay #ThePathSheSings
@romgothsam.bsky.social
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Exciting news!! 🖤
It’s alive… again!
Delighted, on Halloween of all days, to make a very special announcement 📣
A Gothic Cookbook returns from the lab in 2026 with The History Press🦇reanimated, re-edited, with new additions & a new cover!
Ready to feed your darkest cravings.
#AGothicCookbook #GothicFood
Delighted, on Halloween of all days, to make a very special announcement 📣
A Gothic Cookbook returns from the lab in 2026 with The History Press🦇reanimated, re-edited, with new additions & a new cover!
Ready to feed your darkest cravings.
#AGothicCookbook #GothicFood
October 31, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Exciting news!! 🖤
It’s alive… again!
Delighted, on Halloween of all days, to make a very special announcement 📣
A Gothic Cookbook returns from the lab in 2026 with The History Press🦇reanimated, re-edited, with new additions & a new cover!
Ready to feed your darkest cravings.
#AGothicCookbook #GothicFood
Delighted, on Halloween of all days, to make a very special announcement 📣
A Gothic Cookbook returns from the lab in 2026 with The History Press🦇reanimated, re-edited, with new additions & a new cover!
Ready to feed your darkest cravings.
#AGothicCookbook #GothicFood
October 31, 2025 at 8:32 AM
It’s alive… again!
Delighted, on Halloween of all days, to make a very special announcement 📣
A Gothic Cookbook returns from the lab in 2026 with The History Press🦇reanimated, re-edited, with new additions & a new cover!
Ready to feed your darkest cravings.
#AGothicCookbook #GothicFood
Delighted, on Halloween of all days, to make a very special announcement 📣
A Gothic Cookbook returns from the lab in 2026 with The History Press🦇reanimated, re-edited, with new additions & a new cover!
Ready to feed your darkest cravings.
#AGothicCookbook #GothicFood
🩸#AScareADay
Heartbreak hurts… but some wounds bleed on long after you’ve forgotten the cut.
Dive into #BleedingHearts by @sillysyntax.bsky.social…It’s brilliant 💔
@romgothsam.bsky.social
havenspec.com/bleeding-hearts
Heartbreak hurts… but some wounds bleed on long after you’ve forgotten the cut.
Dive into #BleedingHearts by @sillysyntax.bsky.social…It’s brilliant 💔
@romgothsam.bsky.social
havenspec.com/bleeding-hearts
Bleeding Hearts by Suzan Palumbo, Haven Spec Magazine
Fiction and Poetry for the 21st Century!
havenspec.com
October 30, 2025 at 9:44 AM
🩸#AScareADay
Heartbreak hurts… but some wounds bleed on long after you’ve forgotten the cut.
Dive into #BleedingHearts by @sillysyntax.bsky.social…It’s brilliant 💔
@romgothsam.bsky.social
havenspec.com/bleeding-hearts
Heartbreak hurts… but some wounds bleed on long after you’ve forgotten the cut.
Dive into #BleedingHearts by @sillysyntax.bsky.social…It’s brilliant 💔
@romgothsam.bsky.social
havenspec.com/bleeding-hearts
🎨 The Portrait of Sal Pullman by L Nadler. A tale of an artist haunted by his own creation. When others see the grotesque painting as a self-portrait, Sal realises the horror: the art is alive, feeding on admiration & it’s hungry. #AScareADay @romgothsam.bsky.social
www.terror-town.com/stories/3
www.terror-town.com/stories/3
October 29, 2025 at 1:59 PM
🎨 The Portrait of Sal Pullman by L Nadler. A tale of an artist haunted by his own creation. When others see the grotesque painting as a self-portrait, Sal realises the horror: the art is alive, feeding on admiration & it’s hungry. #AScareADay @romgothsam.bsky.social
www.terror-town.com/stories/3
www.terror-town.com/stories/3
What if the bibliography was the story?
@Nibedita Sen’s Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnabar Island turns academic form into body horror and the archive into a mouth.
#AScareADay @romgothsam.bsky.social
www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/ten-...
@Nibedita Sen’s Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnabar Island turns academic form into body horror and the archive into a mouth.
#AScareADay @romgothsam.bsky.social
www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/ten-...
Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnabar Island - Nightmare Magazine
“There are few tales as tragic as that of the denizens of Ratnabar Island. When a British expedition made landfall on its shores in 1891, they did so armed to the teeth, braced for the same hostile re...
www.nightmare-magazine.com
October 28, 2025 at 9:21 PM
What if the bibliography was the story?
@Nibedita Sen’s Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnabar Island turns academic form into body horror and the archive into a mouth.
#AScareADay @romgothsam.bsky.social
www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/ten-...
@Nibedita Sen’s Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnabar Island turns academic form into body horror and the archive into a mouth.
#AScareADay @romgothsam.bsky.social
www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/ten-...
Practising for Halloween. I think this might be my better side 🎃☠️🧛🏼♀️
October 28, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Practising for Halloween. I think this might be my better side 🎃☠️🧛🏼♀️
She doesn’t speak.
They don’t listen.
But Rochelle sees.
💀 Uncontainable by Helen Stubbs
A story about fear, love, and who we lock away.
#AScareADay @romgothsam.bsky.social
www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...
They don’t listen.
But Rochelle sees.
💀 Uncontainable by Helen Stubbs
A story about fear, love, and who we lock away.
#AScareADay @romgothsam.bsky.social
www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...
Uncontainable by Helen Stubbs
They gave her a name when she was born, but it broke, along with all her other things. Into the dark hearth she smashed the toy wagon I gave her. Its splinters found their way into her feet when she c
www.apexbookcompany.com
October 27, 2025 at 5:54 PM
She doesn’t speak.
They don’t listen.
But Rochelle sees.
💀 Uncontainable by Helen Stubbs
A story about fear, love, and who we lock away.
#AScareADay @romgothsam.bsky.social
www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...
They don’t listen.
But Rochelle sees.
💀 Uncontainable by Helen Stubbs
A story about fear, love, and who we lock away.
#AScareADay @romgothsam.bsky.social
www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...
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A confectioner remakes his dead wife in sugar, perfect and edible, then serves her to others. Obsession never tasted so horrific.
🍬 #AScareADay #SweetSubtleties
@romgothsam.bsky.social #LisaLHannett
Listen to it here:
clarkesworldmagazine.com/audio_12_12b/
🍬 #AScareADay #SweetSubtleties
@romgothsam.bsky.social #LisaLHannett
Listen to it here:
clarkesworldmagazine.com/audio_12_12b/
October 24, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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A confectioner remakes his dead wife in sugar, perfect and edible, then serves her to others. Obsession never tasted so horrific.
🍬 #AScareADay #SweetSubtleties
@romgothsam.bsky.social #LisaLHannett
Listen to it here:
clarkesworldmagazine.com/audio_12_12b/
🍬 #AScareADay #SweetSubtleties
@romgothsam.bsky.social #LisaLHannett
Listen to it here:
clarkesworldmagazine.com/audio_12_12b/
October 24, 2025 at 8:33 PM
A confectioner remakes his dead wife in sugar, perfect and edible, then serves her to others. Obsession never tasted so horrific.
🍬 #AScareADay #SweetSubtleties
@romgothsam.bsky.social #LisaLHannett
Listen to it here:
clarkesworldmagazine.com/audio_12_12b/
🍬 #AScareADay #SweetSubtleties
@romgothsam.bsky.social #LisaLHannett
Listen to it here:
clarkesworldmagazine.com/audio_12_12b/
Starting the day the way I mean to carry on- immersed in horror in the run up to Halloween! When your 📸 captures more than you bargained for…
“Has he gone crazy? No. He saw what he saw.” 🕷️ Itsy Bitsy, John L. Lindqvist
#AScareADay @romgothsam.bsky.social
freenovelread.com/john-ajvide-...
“Has he gone crazy? No. He saw what he saw.” 🕷️ Itsy Bitsy, John L. Lindqvist
#AScareADay @romgothsam.bsky.social
freenovelread.com/john-ajvide-...
October 23, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Starting the day the way I mean to carry on- immersed in horror in the run up to Halloween! When your 📸 captures more than you bargained for…
“Has he gone crazy? No. He saw what he saw.” 🕷️ Itsy Bitsy, John L. Lindqvist
#AScareADay @romgothsam.bsky.social
freenovelread.com/john-ajvide-...
“Has he gone crazy? No. He saw what he saw.” 🕷️ Itsy Bitsy, John L. Lindqvist
#AScareADay @romgothsam.bsky.social
freenovelread.com/john-ajvide-...
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I feel like we may need an intervention. Stay away from the dark Allie! Resist the urge to worship the old ones.
October 22, 2025 at 8:53 PM
I feel like we may need an intervention. Stay away from the dark Allie! Resist the urge to worship the old ones.
Oooh this #AScareADay story makes me want to visit New York! When Leon takes a late-night subway in search of inspiration, he finds something waiting in the dark that should never have been seen.
Clive Barker, ‘The Midnight Meat Train’
@romgothsam.bsky.social
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Clive Barker, ‘The Midnight Meat Train’
@romgothsam.bsky.social
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October 22, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Oooh this #AScareADay story makes me want to visit New York! When Leon takes a late-night subway in search of inspiration, he finds something waiting in the dark that should never have been seen.
Clive Barker, ‘The Midnight Meat Train’
@romgothsam.bsky.social
readerslibrary.org/wp-content/u...
Clive Barker, ‘The Midnight Meat Train’
@romgothsam.bsky.social
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Two men take a narrowboat holiday and pick up a mysterious passenger.
The river grows darker, the air colder & the map no longer makes sense.
Elizabeth Jane Howard, Three Miles Up
#AScareADay @romgothsam.bsky.social
Read it here: s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/luminist/EB/...
The river grows darker, the air colder & the map no longer makes sense.
Elizabeth Jane Howard, Three Miles Up
#AScareADay @romgothsam.bsky.social
Read it here: s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/luminist/EB/...
October 21, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Two men take a narrowboat holiday and pick up a mysterious passenger.
The river grows darker, the air colder & the map no longer makes sense.
Elizabeth Jane Howard, Three Miles Up
#AScareADay @romgothsam.bsky.social
Read it here: s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/luminist/EB/...
The river grows darker, the air colder & the map no longer makes sense.
Elizabeth Jane Howard, Three Miles Up
#AScareADay @romgothsam.bsky.social
Read it here: s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/luminist/EB/...
Today’s incredibly spooky #AScareADay takes us to the lonely wilds of the Lake District, where guilt runs deeper than water. Hugh Walpole’s The Tarn is a tale of friendship,revenge& something waiting beneath the surface.
@romgothsam.bsky.social
Read it here:
gutenberg.net.au/ebooks07/070...
@romgothsam.bsky.social
Read it here:
gutenberg.net.au/ebooks07/070...
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October 19, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Today’s incredibly spooky #AScareADay takes us to the lonely wilds of the Lake District, where guilt runs deeper than water. Hugh Walpole’s The Tarn is a tale of friendship,revenge& something waiting beneath the surface.
@romgothsam.bsky.social
Read it here:
gutenberg.net.au/ebooks07/070...
@romgothsam.bsky.social
Read it here:
gutenberg.net.au/ebooks07/070...
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The dust has begun to settle on the first @serveitforthfest.bsky.social and what a day it was.
Thank you to everyone who bought a ticket and for your kind words @mrssbilton.bsky.social @deliciouslegacy.bsky.social @alessandrapino.bsky.social and I are so glad you enjoyed the day.
Thank you to everyone who bought a ticket and for your kind words @mrssbilton.bsky.social @deliciouslegacy.bsky.social @alessandrapino.bsky.social and I are so glad you enjoyed the day.
October 19, 2025 at 5:32 PM
The dust has begun to settle on the first @serveitforthfest.bsky.social and what a day it was.
Thank you to everyone who bought a ticket and for your kind words @mrssbilton.bsky.social @deliciouslegacy.bsky.social @alessandrapino.bsky.social and I are so glad you enjoyed the day.
Thank you to everyone who bought a ticket and for your kind words @mrssbilton.bsky.social @deliciouslegacy.bsky.social @alessandrapino.bsky.social and I are so glad you enjoyed the day.
Loved every minute of @serveitforthfest.bsky.social and thank you to @drdan.bsky.social for sharing the stage with me on this weird and wonderful journey along the Thames, one full of death and food.
October 18, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Loved every minute of @serveitforthfest.bsky.social and thank you to @drdan.bsky.social for sharing the stage with me on this weird and wonderful journey along the Thames, one full of death and food.
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"Serve It Forth" is happening tomorrow from 10:30!
A little independent, online Food History Festival that is organised by four foodies and historians! Me, @neilbuttery.bsky.social @mrssbilton.bsky.social & @alessandrapino.bsky.social doing our first event together, hope everyone enjoys the talks!
A little independent, online Food History Festival that is organised by four foodies and historians! Me, @neilbuttery.bsky.social @mrssbilton.bsky.social & @alessandrapino.bsky.social doing our first event together, hope everyone enjoys the talks!
October 17, 2025 at 8:45 PM
"Serve It Forth" is happening tomorrow from 10:30!
A little independent, online Food History Festival that is organised by four foodies and historians! Me, @neilbuttery.bsky.social @mrssbilton.bsky.social & @alessandrapino.bsky.social doing our first event together, hope everyone enjoys the talks!
A little independent, online Food History Festival that is organised by four foodies and historians! Me, @neilbuttery.bsky.social @mrssbilton.bsky.social & @alessandrapino.bsky.social doing our first event together, hope everyone enjoys the talks!
Never trust what sparkles. In Agatha Christie’s “The Blue Jar,” a beautiful trinket becomes a trap, and reality slips like glass between your fingers. #AScareADay @romgothsam.bsky.social
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October 17, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Never trust what sparkles. In Agatha Christie’s “The Blue Jar,” a beautiful trinket becomes a trap, and reality slips like glass between your fingers. #AScareADay @romgothsam.bsky.social
pseudopod.org/2020/01/03/p...
pseudopod.org/2020/01/03/p...
#AScareADay Conrad Aiken’s The Vampire.
She comes weeping, her eyes “so sweet, so poisonous,” and all who follow her are lost.
Desire and death move together like the plough through flesh and bone. 🌒
poets.org/poem/vampire
She comes weeping, her eyes “so sweet, so poisonous,” and all who follow her are lost.
Desire and death move together like the plough through flesh and bone. 🌒
poets.org/poem/vampire
The Vampire
She rose among us where we lay
poets.org
October 15, 2025 at 12:00 PM
#AScareADay Conrad Aiken’s The Vampire.
She comes weeping, her eyes “so sweet, so poisonous,” and all who follow her are lost.
Desire and death move together like the plough through flesh and bone. 🌒
poets.org/poem/vampire
She comes weeping, her eyes “so sweet, so poisonous,” and all who follow her are lost.
Desire and death move together like the plough through flesh and bone. 🌒
poets.org/poem/vampire
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Just 4 DAYS until the first @serveitforthfest.bsky.social on 18 October via Zoom.
You can still get your ticket! Get 25% off with code SERVE25.
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You can still get your ticket! Get 25% off with code SERVE25.
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Serve it Forth Food History Festival 2025
Join us for Serve it Forth Food History Festival 2025 for a fantastic day of discussion, chat and learning about food history and traditions
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October 14, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Just 4 DAYS until the first @serveitforthfest.bsky.social on 18 October via Zoom.
You can still get your ticket! Get 25% off with code SERVE25.
www.eventbrite.com/e/serve-it-f...
You can still get your ticket! Get 25% off with code SERVE25.
www.eventbrite.com/e/serve-it-f...