My dinner with zombie: the picture edition

A few weeks ago, I blogged about a zombie-themed dinner I had with some friends of mine. I promised some pictures. And now I've finally got around to uploading them in this post.

An episode of The Big Bang Theory inspired our attempt at a zombie dinner party: Raj and Howard got all Gothed up to go to a dark nightclub where they try to get lucky with some creepy sweetlings. In one scene, they play Gother-than-thou; and Raj goes so far as to claim that they even eat 'Goth food.' The one gothling asks what that is and Raj replies: 'Blackened salmon.'

Hmmmm...if Goth is a lifestyle, then what is Goth food? This is not some original musing on my part alone. There are many options for Goth food, including this cookbook. But I wondered how the zombie theme could be culinarized.

Food is an ephemeral art. Delicious and deadly. If consumption=destruction=a little death. Photography then is a second life. A living death, as it were...

Here are the results:

If zombies had enough will power to set the table:

Intestines anyone?

Mmmmm...clotted blood:

More blood and entrails in a delicious gooey mess:

Zombies go cosmopolitan:

Spaghetti squash with cranberries as...well, use the dark side of your imagination:

Tripe before covering:

Tripe after covering...parmesan helps hide the taste of internal organs:

Fried liver in a brain...well, it kind of looks like a brain. Cheesy is ok in zombieland:

A ravishing massacre...Before we cut it up, it looked like legs struggling from a grave:

What zombies would drink. And what they would mix their drinks in:

The celery stick is just for presentation and practicality. No self-respecting zombie would touch that!

I hope you enjoyed these pics. Dinner should be about creation as much as delectation.

Eat on! Make on! My fellow friends of the walking dead...