domandeirrisolte:
“Do you have any examples of meat-ing creatively?”
Janice Poon:
“I made lamb tongues out of bulgur and water. It’s like making a
Lebanese kibbeh. You mix cracked wheat with water and it makes a kind of
mush that holds together. The texture is a little ‘nubbly,’ so I added a
pink food coloring, made little tongues out of kibbeh dough, steamed
them up, and they were my little lambs’ tongues.The idea is that Hannibal is always eating people, regardless of what
he’s feeding you. So I wanted it to look like something that could
be lamb’s tongue but probably was a people tongue. Lambs’ tongues are
so homely, and once you cook them they just look creepy and
unappetizing, and what I want more than anything is for the food to look
so delicious that you want to reach into the screen and try it, even
though you know it’s people. It’s the personification of Hannibal. He’s
the Devil. Why do you like him? Why do you want to get to know him? Why
do you want to eat these tongues? They’re people! ”
“I really loved that photo of the side-by-side of your leg with the piece of meat.”
Janice Poon:
“I don’t play with the food. It’s a serious job, you know? I wouldn’t
have to go to these measures, but I said, “I’m going to use veal shank,”
and people weren’t so sure it would look like a human leg. Like, you
either trust me or you don’t. I took a glass, put a sock on it, dropped
it in the shoe, held the shank up to my leg above the shoe and my
assistant took the picture on her phone. We don’t have a lot of time to
waste, but a point needed to be made.” [Janice Poon interview for Hopes&Fears on June 23, 2016 - photo]
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