Fear Feasts is a podcast that analyses the horror genre in films and literature through the use and symbolism of food.

Co-hosted and produced by Alessandra Pino and Vanessa Baca.

A is for Apple is an Encyclopaedia of Food & Drink in a podcast hosted by Dr Alessandra Pino, Sam Bilton and Dr Neil Buttery.

Contribution to podcasts

3rd June 2023 RTG Horacio Quiroga

Alessandra Pino, July 2023, in The Well Seasoned Librarian

Alessandra Pino, “Death by Chocolate,” November 30, 2023, in The Comfortably Hungry podcast, produced by Sam Bilton.

Alessandra Pino, “Food in Gothic Literature,” December 30, 2021, in The British Food History Podcast, produced by Neil Buttery, podcast, MP3 audio

Alessandra Pino, Food in Gothic Literature, October 12 2022 in London Luminaries for Strawberry Hill House

Alessandra Pino, “A Gothic Cookbook” July 20 2021 in Folklore, Food and Fairytales, produced by Rachel Mosses

Alessandra Pino, “The Gothic Suppression of Victorian Women” September 16 2021 in Coffee and Cocktails Podcast, produced by Ann Wand

Alessandra Pino, “Cuban Identity as it relates to Dark Food” September 30 2021 in Coffee and Cocktails Podcast, produced by Ann Wand

Alessandra Pino, “The Gothic Pleasure of Ravioli” September 26 2021 in Food in Books, produced by Vanessa Baca

Alessandra Pino, “Cruel Intentions: Haunted Food and Doomed Relationships”, October 27 2021 for the The Last Tuesday Society at The Viktor Wynd Museum online talk

Alessandra Pino, “Folklore Food and Fairytales” podcast July 23 2021, produced by Rachel Mosses

Alessandra Pino, “Monstrous Teapots and Tart Tangerines: How Food Signifies the Sinister in Rebecca”, September 29 2021 talk for Bristol Gothic Reading Group, produced by Joan Passey

Alessandra Pino, “Food Has a New Flavour in the Haunting of Hill House”, December 7 2021 in Reading Shirley Jackson in the 21st Century, produced by Janice Lynne Deitner

Alessandra Pino, “A Gothic Cookbook”, June 5 2022 in The Folklore Podcast, produced by Mark Norman

Alessandra Pino, “Dracula and the Bloody Satisfaction of Chicken Paprikash” May 19 2022 in Food in Books Podcast, produced by Vanessa Baca

Alessandra Pino, Food in Gothic Literature, October 12 2022 in London Luminaries for Strawberry Hill House

Alessandra Pino, “The History of Gingerbread”, October 5 2022 in Comfortably Hungry, produced by Sam Bilton

Alessandra Pino “Cooking with Frankenstein”, February 5 2023 in Goths for Breakfast, produced by Dr Sam Hirst for Magic Breakfast Charity

Alessandra Pino, “Elizabeth Raffald”,  February 24 2023 in The British Food History Podcast, produced by Neil Buttery, podcast, MP3 audio

Alessandra Pino, “Life and Death on the Table: Babette’s Feast, Memory and the Commune” July 9 2021 for The Left Page and Here Be Media, produced Frank Rudiger Lopes