about

Welcome! My name is Chef and I will be your host.

Art by Joe Giella.1

I am a comic book food archaeologist.2

My job is to catalog scenes involving food & drink in superhero comics.3

This is the blog of the catalog.4

 

Contact me

 

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Quotations look like this:

“History celebrates the battlefields whereon we meet our death, but scorns to speak of the plowed fields whereby we thrive. It knows the names of the king’s bastards but cannot tell us the origin of wheat. This is the way of human folly.” — Jean-Henri Fabre

 

Header image on homepage is from Amazing Spider-Man #504 (2004)
Written by J. Michael Straczynski & Fiona Avery | Artwork by John Romita Jr.

 

What’s a Lazy Susan?

antique lazy susan

notes

 

1 This is really not a good photo of me.
2 Empire State University, PhD 1999

3 Mostly superheroes and mostly just comics but I’ll toss in whatever tickles my palate.
4 New posts occur fortnightly or so, mostly.
Also food holidays.

 

 

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