Food of My People: The Exile Book Of Anthology Series Number Nineteen

by Candas Jane Dorsey (Editor), Ursula Pflug (Editor)

Eating is a symbolic and magical act—a transformation, a covenant, a ritual, a comfort, a necessity—but all through history, food-themed stories have also had their dark sides. Food can be integral to the magic, the meetings, and the processes of fantastical from myth and legend to high fantasy, from hard-science speculative fiction to post-modern magic realism, from Hansel and Gretel to Soylent Green , from Persephone to 2001 , from Alice in Wonderland to Alien . In this anthology, Ursula Pflug and Candas Jane Dorsey, two award-winning senior writers of literary speculation, have gathered a range of speculative writing that recognizes both our attraction to the candy coating and our fascination with the poisoned apple. Paired with each story is a recipe, real or fantastical, for food mentioned in the consume at your own risk!

375 pages, Paperback

Published September 15, 2021

About the author

Candas Jane Dorsey (born November 16, 1952) is a Canadian poet and science fiction novelist.
Born and still living in Edmonton, Alberta, Dorsey became a writer from an early age, and a freelance writer since 1980. She writes across genre boundaries, writing poetry, fiction, mainstream and speculative, short and long form, arts journalism and arts advocacy. Dorsey has also written television and stage scripts, magazine and newspaper articles, and reviews.

Dorsey currently teaches, does workshops and readings. She has served on the executive board of the Writers' Guild of Alberta and is a founder of SF Canada. In 1988, Dorsey received the Aurora, Canadian science fiction and fantasy award.

Dorsey was editor-in-chief of The Books Collective (River, Slipstream and Tesseract Books) from 1992 through 2005.

- Source: Wikipedia

Reviews

[Mael Brigde · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really enjoyed this anthology, more than most, with only one story that I didn’t finish (because it wasn’t well written book because the subject matter gives me the creeps). Full disclosure, I have two stories in the book, but I already read those so they weren’t part of my review. Naturally I like them both.

[K.R. Wilson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Food Of My People is a quirky collection of short stories, some mythic, some magical, some horrific, some post-apocalyptic, but all linked in some way to food. And in a nice unifying conceit each is capped with a real—or sometimes surreal—recipe.