ABSTRACT
Certainly the relationship between the experience of Otherness, of pleasure and death, is explored in the film “The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover” […] The [dark skinned] cook tells her that black foods are desired because they remind those who eat them of death (in the film, always and only by white people), the cook as native informant tells us it is a way to flirt with death, to flaunt one’s power. He says that to eat black food is a way to say “death, I am eating you” thereby conquering fear and acknowledging power. White racism, imperialism, and sexist domination prevail by courageous consumption. It is by eating the Other […] that one asserts power and privilege. (36)
