the Devil’s Kitchen: Forbidden Foods, Fasting, Feast Days, Sinful Appetite, Holy Meals, Poisoned Dishes, and Spiritual History of Eating

A dark, delicious journey through the spiritual history of eating.Food has never been just food.Across centuries, the table has been a place of holiness, temptation, punishment, pleasure, fear, healing, poison, and power. From forbidden fruit and sacred bread to fasting saints, feast days, gluttony, kitchen witchcraft, poison plots, funeral meals, food taboos, and modern diet morality, The Devil's Kitchen explores the strange and gripping ways human beings have turned eating into a matter of the soul.Inside, you will discover: - Forbidden foods and the ancient fear of appetite - Holy meals, sacred bread, sacrifice, and communion - Fasting saints, miracle hunger, and spiritual starvation - Feast days, sin, gluttony, and religious guilt - Poisoned dishes, royal tasters, witchcraft, and kitchen suspicion - Funeral food, offerings to the dead, and meals for spirits - The modern afterlife of food morality, purity, and shameThe Devil's Kitchen is for readers fascinated by food history, folklore, religion, witchcraft, taboo, poison, saints, sin, and the hidden meanings behind the meals we eat.Dark, rich, strange, and unforgettable, this is the story of appetite as humanity's oldest spiritual battleground.