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What Do Aliens Eat? Food in Sci-Fi and Fantasy
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Food Is an Essential Part of a Culture
Fran told us that a lot of these very underthought through foods were named and shamed as pure laziness by a british syphy and fantasy novlist called diana wyn jones. Ursula legwyn was not only a famous fantasy writer who started publishing in the 19 sixties, but her father was an anthropologist,. Her mother was a psychologist who also wrote books of anthropology. She really understood that you can't really conceptualize of a culture without understanding its food. It's the first widely available science fiction novel i know of that actually includes recipes at always coming home.
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