Cooking the Books with Carmen Maria Machado

Posted on October 4, 2017

Happy Wednesday and welcome to a brand new monthly feature in partnership with Fran Wilde and Aliette de Bodard’s Cooking the Books Podcast!

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Today’s guest is Carmen Maria Machado – recently nominated for a National Book Award – talking to Aliette and Fran about her collection Her Body and Other Parties over at the main Cooking the Books kitchen.

Meanwhile…

Here at the extension kitchen, we have bonus Q&A content and an audio snippet!

The Book Smugglers: What’s your favorite food scene from (an SFF) movie, tv show, or book?

Carmen Maria Machado: Every feast in every book of the Redwall series.

The Book Smugglers: Let’s play Marry/Kiss/Kill, but with food.

Carmen Maria Machado: Marry: Kalamata olives. Kiss: Arby’s Roast Beef Sandwich. Kill: Maple-glazed carrots.

And here is the audio clip teaser of A Book Smugglers Question(TM):

Go over to the main kitchen to check out the full episode to listen to the whole interview!

Carmen Maria Machado Cooking the Books

Ana

Ana Grilo is a Brazilian who moved to the UK because of the weather. No, seriously. She works with translations in RL and hopes one day The Book Smugglers will be her day job. When she’s not here at The Book Smugglers, she is hogging our Twitter feed.