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How to Bake a Cockatrice, by Brendan Connell

Written by Chomu Press Admin on March 6, 2015 - 0 Comments
Categories: Essays

Today, we bring you the second in a series of guest essays by Chômu authors. This time, ‘How to Bake a Cockatrice, and Other Gastronomic Oddities’, an essay on Renaissance cuisine by Brendan Connell. If you enjoy the essay below, you might also like Lives of Notorious Cooks by the same author.
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Guestblog: Justin Isis

Written by Chomu Press Admin on January 30, 2015 - 1 Comment
Categories: Essays

(Below, please find an essay by Chômu author Justin Isis that originally appeared on the website Patchwork Earth. We hope this will be the first of a number of essays from Chômu authors to appear on the site. – QSC.)
On July 3, 2008, one month before killing himself, Thomas M. Disch wrote a poem in [...]

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