Cooking the Books with Carmen Maria Machado

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 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!