"Feeding Hannibal"

From http://janicepoonart.blogspot.com/

If you're a fan of NBC's Hannibal--and even though I can see some flaws in the show, I most assuredly am a huge fan--Feeding Hannibal is awesome. It is the blog of the show's food stylist, Janice Poon. Her sketches and glimpses of how the show is scripted over time are fascinating, but her wry narrative style is fun and the overall look at how major TV drama sausage (heh) gets made had me reading post after post. I often love getting lost in the intricate details of such things.

After reading Ms. Poon's blog I no longer feel quite so weird about how watching a show about a cannibalistic foodie psychiatrist often makes me more interested in cooking. The show creators clearly put a great deal of work and thought into making the food scenes detailed and aesthetically interesting.

This is actually one of the things that marks Hannibal out as a particularly brilliant TV drama (sometimes nearing Twin Peaks levels of ironic, dark genius); the show's creators are so shamelessly attentive to making the audience see how Dr. Lecter could plausibly feed his intelligent and immensely discerning guests the remains of the good doctor's various human prey. It's as if they're saying, 'if you were at Dr. Lecter's table unawares, you'd happily tuck right in yourself.' God help us all, I think we would.

["Feeding Hannibal"-- Janice Poon Art & Food Styling]