Editors: Terri Windling
and Midori Snyder
Book Reviewers: Helen Pilinovsky
and Elizabeth Genco
Art:
(top) Vertumnus by Giuseppe Arcimboldo
(middle) Goblin Fruit by Oliver Hunter
(middle) Windfalls by Arthur Rackham
(bottom) Fairy Gardeners by Alan Lee
Letter from the Editor's Desk
“In a Harvest Feast of offerings, we're looking at food in myth and legend, and at the magical marketplaces where goblin fruits are sold . . .”
The Lore of Simple Things: Milk, Honey and Bread in Myth and Legend
“Here are three foods ancient and primal: one given, one found, one formed. Milk, honey and bread. Bon appetit.”
Rates of (Ex)Change: The Goblin Market and Voodoo Accounting
“We must not look at goblin men, / We must not buy their fruits: / Who knows upon what soil they feed their hungry thirsty roots?”
The Boy Who Was Born Wrapped in Barbed Wire
“Bumblebees shouldn't be able to fly,” said the beekeeper, closing the lid on the hive. “Their bodies are so large and their wings so small, they shouldn't be able to lift themselves into the air, but somehow they do. They fly.”
In Praise of the Cook
“Outside the storms raged, but inside, in the warmth of the kitchen, my father was committing an act of sorcery on fresh tomatoes.”
From Persephone's Letters
to Demeter