In time for the Halloween season: two famous literary Black Feasts.
The link below, preserved from an old Gothic home decor website on Geocities, includes passages describing the somber table that the decadent aesthete Des Essientes, protagonist of J.K. Huysman's A Rebours, sets to mourn his impotence, and the black buffet set before Fritz Leiber's Gray Mouser as he browses the "Bazaar of the Bizarre":
http://www.oocities.com/idlewild_designs/gothic/black-feasts.htm
Also helpfully included, for the inspiration of readers wishing to follow suit, is a lengthy list of additional black foodstuffs; a few I'd add to their list are blue corn chips (which, in practice, often appear asphalt-black), Chinese tree mushrooms (the sort often found in hot-and-sour soup), hatcho miso (a near-black brown), and the seaweeds laver and hijiki.
http://www.oocities.com/idlewild_designs/gothic/black-feasts.htm
Also helpfully included, for the inspiration of readers wishing to follow suit, is a lengthy list of additional black foodstuffs; a few I'd add to their list are blue corn chips (which, in practice, often appear asphalt-black), Chinese tree mushrooms (the sort often found in hot-and-sour soup), hatcho miso (a near-black brown), and the seaweeds laver and hijiki.