Dr_Alessandra_P
@alessandrapino.bsky.social
Food historian, author, podcaster, lover of the supernatural & all things horror. www.alessandrapino.com
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Do you like a spooky story at Christmas time? If so join me, @neilbuttery.bsky.social @alessandrapino.bsky.social & @deliciouslegacy.bsky.social at the next @serveitforthfest.bsky.social event for a Christmas Feast of the Uncanny on 11 December 2025
November 26, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Do you like a spooky story at Christmas time? If so join me, @neilbuttery.bsky.social @alessandrapino.bsky.social & @deliciouslegacy.bsky.social at the next @serveitforthfest.bsky.social event for a Christmas Feast of the Uncanny on 11 December 2025
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Join @mrssbilton.bsky.social, @alessandrapino.bsky.social & me for @serveitforthfest.bsky.social Christmas special called 'A Christmas Feast of the Uncanny'.
It's on 11 Dec & it's online.
Tickets are £5 + booking fee & are available here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-christma...
It's on 11 Dec & it's online.
Tickets are £5 + booking fee & are available here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-christma...
A Christmas Feast of the Uncanny
Serve it Forth Food History Festival invites you to an evening exploring the eerie side of Yuletide food traditions.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Join @mrssbilton.bsky.social, @alessandrapino.bsky.social & me for @serveitforthfest.bsky.social Christmas special called 'A Christmas Feast of the Uncanny'.
It's on 11 Dec & it's online.
Tickets are £5 + booking fee & are available here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-christma...
It's on 11 Dec & it's online.
Tickets are £5 + booking fee & are available here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-christma...
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Join @mrssbilton.bsky.social, @alessandrapino.bsky.social & me for a @serveitforthfest.bsky.social special 'Christmas Feast of the Uncanny' online & on 11 December
Ghosts, goblins, elves & their relationship to food at Christmas time
Tickets are £5 via this link: www.eventbrite.com/e/a-christma...
Ghosts, goblins, elves & their relationship to food at Christmas time
Tickets are £5 via this link: www.eventbrite.com/e/a-christma...
A Christmas Feast of the Uncanny
Serve it Forth Food History Festival invites you to an evening exploring the eerie side of Yuletide food traditions.
www.eventbrite.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Join @mrssbilton.bsky.social, @alessandrapino.bsky.social & me for a @serveitforthfest.bsky.social special 'Christmas Feast of the Uncanny' online & on 11 December
Ghosts, goblins, elves & their relationship to food at Christmas time
Tickets are £5 via this link: www.eventbrite.com/e/a-christma...
Ghosts, goblins, elves & their relationship to food at Christmas time
Tickets are £5 via this link: www.eventbrite.com/e/a-christma...
Thank you! I’m so looking forward to it 🤩
This event sounds brilliant and it's something different from the usual jolly festivities
✨ 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 17, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Thank you! I’m so looking forward to it 🤩
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Mercifully, I left the play unruined. (Mille grazie to @alessandrapino.bsky.social for the photo).
November 15, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Mercifully, I left the play unruined. (Mille grazie to @alessandrapino.bsky.social for the photo).
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Well this looks amazing!!!!
✨ 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 11:09 AM
Well this looks amazing!!!!
✨ 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... 🖤
It was great talking to @deliciouslegacy.bsky.social 🫓🇻🇪
Did you had a listen to this?
Together with @alessandrapino.bsky.social we explore the connection between food and revolution in South America. Wine and Empanadas for everyone?
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
#food #revolution #southamerica #empanadas #venezuela #chile #cuba
Together with @alessandrapino.bsky.social we explore the connection between food and revolution in South America. Wine and Empanadas for everyone?
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
#food #revolution #southamerica #empanadas #venezuela #chile #cuba
Food and Revolution in South America
Podcast Episode · The Delicious Legacy · 07/02/2025 · 55m
podcasts.apple.com
November 15, 2025 at 8:22 AM
It was great talking to @deliciouslegacy.bsky.social 🫓🇻🇪
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.