Charlotte Perkins Gilman's classic psychological horror story The Yellow Wallpaper, however unlikely a spur to culinary invention it might seem, moved mochi-roll to reflection...
I've always seen one's relationship with desserts to be both dangerous, comforting, and sometimes, predatory. You know it's that optional part of the meal, but you tend to eat it ( Read more... )

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 ( Read more... )