An Intimidation of Shrimp: A Cooking the Books Roundtable

An Intimidation of Shrimpisn’ta proper collective noun, but wouldn’t it be wonderful if it was? It snags the imagination, makes you wonder what strange, tiny danger is this?

In Aliette de Bodard‘s short stories, novelettes, novellas, and novelsfood is dangerous, political, intimidating, and delicious — sometimes all of the above at the same time. Aliette’s latestnovel The House of Shattered Wings appears in August from Roc in the US and Gollancz in the UK.

InZen Cho‘s novels, food is as defin...