Dr_Alessandra_P
@alessandrapino.bsky.social
Food historian, author, podcaster, lover of the supernatural & all things horror. www.alessandrapino.com
✨ Dark Feasts: The Sinister Side of Festive Dining ✨
Join me on 6 December 2025 at 3:30 pm for a talk with London Month of the Dead on the darker palate of festive food and how Christmas eating can slip into ritual, memory, unease & the uncanny.
Tickets: londonmonthofthedead.com/gothicdinner... 🖤
Join me on 6 December 2025 at 3:30 pm for a talk with London Month of the Dead on the darker palate of festive food and how Christmas eating can slip into ritual, memory, unease & the uncanny.
Tickets: londonmonthofthedead.com/gothicdinner... 🖤
November 15, 2025 at 9:36 AM
✨ Dark Feasts: The Sinister Side of Festive Dining ✨
Join me on 6 December 2025 at 3:30 pm for a talk with London Month of the Dead on the darker palate of festive food and how Christmas eating can slip into ritual, memory, unease & the uncanny.
Tickets: londonmonthofthedead.com/gothicdinner... 🖤
Join me on 6 December 2025 at 3:30 pm for a talk with London Month of the Dead on the darker palate of festive food and how Christmas eating can slip into ritual, memory, unease & the uncanny.
Tickets: londonmonthofthedead.com/gothicdinner... 🖤
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) 🖤
Such a joy 💚 thank you!
November 8, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Such a joy 💚 thank you!
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
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
🎨 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
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 🎃☠️🧛🏼♀️
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-...
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
readerslibrary.org/wp-content/u...
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
readerslibrary.org/wp-content/u...
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/...
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.
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...
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...
Today’s #AScareADay crosses the Styx with Lord Dunsany’s Charon.
The ferryman rows on, weary beyond time, until one day only one soul arrives.
“I am the last,” the ghost says.
And for the first time, Charon weeps.
@romgothsam.bsky.social
www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/7...
The ferryman rows on, weary beyond time, until one day only one soul arrives.
“I am the last,” the ghost says.
And for the first time, Charon weeps.
@romgothsam.bsky.social
www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/7...
October 14, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Today’s #AScareADay crosses the Styx with Lord Dunsany’s Charon.
The ferryman rows on, weary beyond time, until one day only one soul arrives.
“I am the last,” the ghost says.
And for the first time, Charon weeps.
@romgothsam.bsky.social
www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/7...
The ferryman rows on, weary beyond time, until one day only one soul arrives.
“I am the last,” the ghost says.
And for the first time, Charon weeps.
@romgothsam.bsky.social
www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/7...
Apples of ashes. Waters of bitterness. A banquet of foul delight. Lionel Pigot Johnson’s The Dark Angel turns beauty and every feast into poison ☠️.
#AScareADay 👻
@romgothsam.bsky.social
allpoetry.com/poem/8526407...
#AScareADay 👻
@romgothsam.bsky.social
allpoetry.com/poem/8526407...
October 10, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Apples of ashes. Waters of bitterness. A banquet of foul delight. Lionel Pigot Johnson’s The Dark Angel turns beauty and every feast into poison ☠️.
#AScareADay 👻
@romgothsam.bsky.social
allpoetry.com/poem/8526407...
#AScareADay 👻
@romgothsam.bsky.social
allpoetry.com/poem/8526407...
Deep below, the Kraken sleeps 🌊 vast, ancient, and dreaming of the world’s end. Alfred Tennyson’s sea monster still stirs. #AScareADay @romgothsam.bsky.social
poets.org/poem/kraken
poets.org/poem/kraken
October 5, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Deep below, the Kraken sleeps 🌊 vast, ancient, and dreaming of the world’s end. Alfred Tennyson’s sea monster still stirs. #AScareADay @romgothsam.bsky.social
poets.org/poem/kraken
poets.org/poem/kraken
“But what we children detested most of all was his big coarse hairy hands…he delighted to touch [our food] until bright tears stood in our eyes.” 🍰💀
Today’s #AScareADay @romgothsam.bsky.social E.T.A. Hoffmann’s The Sandman (1816) brings terror to the table, where even sweets turn uncanny.
Today’s #AScareADay @romgothsam.bsky.social E.T.A. Hoffmann’s The Sandman (1816) brings terror to the table, where even sweets turn uncanny.
October 3, 2025 at 5:18 PM
“But what we children detested most of all was his big coarse hairy hands…he delighted to touch [our food] until bright tears stood in our eyes.” 🍰💀
Today’s #AScareADay @romgothsam.bsky.social E.T.A. Hoffmann’s The Sandman (1816) brings terror to the table, where even sweets turn uncanny.
Today’s #AScareADay @romgothsam.bsky.social E.T.A. Hoffmann’s The Sandman (1816) brings terror to the table, where even sweets turn uncanny.
The Elopement
Sometimes you don’t need to get thee to a nunnery because the nuns will try to get to thee…persistently! What a great story for @romgothsam.bsky.social
#AScareADay
en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Lit...
Sometimes you don’t need to get thee to a nunnery because the nuns will try to get to thee…persistently! What a great story for @romgothsam.bsky.social
#AScareADay
en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Lit...
October 2, 2025 at 10:28 PM
The Elopement
Sometimes you don’t need to get thee to a nunnery because the nuns will try to get to thee…persistently! What a great story for @romgothsam.bsky.social
#AScareADay
en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Lit...
Sometimes you don’t need to get thee to a nunnery because the nuns will try to get to thee…persistently! What a great story for @romgothsam.bsky.social
#AScareADay
en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Lit...
My work on dark food has been published in The Palgrave Handbook of Literary Memory Studies.
Very pleased to finally hold a physical copy @panmacmillan.bsky.social
It’s a privilege to have my work on dark food included in this volume alongside such excellent scholarship.
Very pleased to finally hold a physical copy @panmacmillan.bsky.social
It’s a privilege to have my work on dark food included in this volume alongside such excellent scholarship.
September 3, 2025 at 10:52 AM
My work on dark food has been published in The Palgrave Handbook of Literary Memory Studies.
Very pleased to finally hold a physical copy @panmacmillan.bsky.social
It’s a privilege to have my work on dark food included in this volume alongside such excellent scholarship.
Very pleased to finally hold a physical copy @panmacmillan.bsky.social
It’s a privilege to have my work on dark food included in this volume alongside such excellent scholarship.
The latest issue of Haunted Magazine is here in my witchy hands!
I explore ghosts in the theatre – from 18th-c. spirits to 2:22 A Ghost Story @dannyrobins.bsky.social & the return of the actor-ghost 🎭
✨Plus my interview with @adamzed.bsky.social Don’t miss it!
👉 hauntedmag.com
I explore ghosts in the theatre – from 18th-c. spirits to 2:22 A Ghost Story @dannyrobins.bsky.social & the return of the actor-ghost 🎭
✨Plus my interview with @adamzed.bsky.social Don’t miss it!
👉 hauntedmag.com
September 2, 2025 at 12:16 PM
The latest issue of Haunted Magazine is here in my witchy hands!
I explore ghosts in the theatre – from 18th-c. spirits to 2:22 A Ghost Story @dannyrobins.bsky.social & the return of the actor-ghost 🎭
✨Plus my interview with @adamzed.bsky.social Don’t miss it!
👉 hauntedmag.com
I explore ghosts in the theatre – from 18th-c. spirits to 2:22 A Ghost Story @dannyrobins.bsky.social & the return of the actor-ghost 🎭
✨Plus my interview with @adamzed.bsky.social Don’t miss it!
👉 hauntedmag.com
Haunted Magazine #47 is out! I explore how fear is crafted on stage, from high-tech effects to candlelit performances, spotlighting @adamzed.bsky.social’s 10 years of haunting theatre, writing, and online ghost story magic.
August 22, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Haunted Magazine #47 is out! I explore how fear is crafted on stage, from high-tech effects to candlelit performances, spotlighting @adamzed.bsky.social’s 10 years of haunting theatre, writing, and online ghost story magic.
👻 Haunted Magazine Issue 47 is here!
🎭 10 years of The Book of Darkness & Light @adamzed.bsky.social
😱 Haunted theatres, cursed books & mirror terrors
🥮 Even malt loaf becomes a superstition…
Out Sept 1
👉 Order now: hauntedmag.com
🎭 10 years of The Book of Darkness & Light @adamzed.bsky.social
😱 Haunted theatres, cursed books & mirror terrors
🥮 Even malt loaf becomes a superstition…
Out Sept 1
👉 Order now: hauntedmag.com
August 21, 2025 at 8:59 AM
👻 Haunted Magazine Issue 47 is here!
🎭 10 years of The Book of Darkness & Light @adamzed.bsky.social
😱 Haunted theatres, cursed books & mirror terrors
🥮 Even malt loaf becomes a superstition…
Out Sept 1
👉 Order now: hauntedmag.com
🎭 10 years of The Book of Darkness & Light @adamzed.bsky.social
😱 Haunted theatres, cursed books & mirror terrors
🥮 Even malt loaf becomes a superstition…
Out Sept 1
👉 Order now: hauntedmag.com
I had the absolute pleasure of joining @mrssbilton.bsky.social on her award-winning Comfortably Hungry podcast to talk all things food & fiction.
From subversive cake in Jane Eyre to tangerines in Rebecca, we explore how Gothic novels feed our hunger, desire & dread…
Listen if you dare🎧
From subversive cake in Jane Eyre to tangerines in Rebecca, we explore how Gothic novels feed our hunger, desire & dread…
Listen if you dare🎧
July 3, 2025 at 11:51 AM
I had the absolute pleasure of joining @mrssbilton.bsky.social on her award-winning Comfortably Hungry podcast to talk all things food & fiction.
From subversive cake in Jane Eyre to tangerines in Rebecca, we explore how Gothic novels feed our hunger, desire & dread…
Listen if you dare🎧
From subversive cake in Jane Eyre to tangerines in Rebecca, we explore how Gothic novels feed our hunger, desire & dread…
Listen if you dare🎧