Happy Wednesday and welcome to a brand new monthly feature in partnership with Fran Wilde and Aliette de Bodard’s Cooking the Books Podcast! Today’s guest is Yoon Ha Lee talking to Aliette and Fran about his excellent novels Ninefox Gambit and Raven Stratagem 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: A. The world(s) you created are completely unlikely anything I have ever read with incredible worldbuilding and imaginative warfare. One thing that remains pretty much recognizable: the food that your characters eat. Can you talk a bit about it? Yoon Ha Lee: I like having the food my characters eat be foods that I have eaten and loved; otherwise why bother? I was born in Texas and love many American foods; my dad’s from South Korea but he learned to grill a mean steak from his colleagues! That being said, I grew tired of military sf or space opera where the food, if recognizably terrestrial in origin, was basically all Western all the time. So I like to sometimes mix it up with various foods I ate in Korea, or that […]