As a home-cooking enthusiast who is regarded by my friends and family as a pretty good cook, I am nonetheless intrigued by the darker side of cuisine. Many sites, such as the Lileks Gallery of Regrettable Food, take a casual look at the seedy side of culinary catastrophes, but there is a real gap when it comes to understanding the true horror that awaits those who are a little too open-minded when it comes to their pursuits.

I hope for this to become a sort of food-related Worse Than Failure, where people can share their own horrors of hors d’oeuvres and epitaphs of epicurean epicaricacy. I hope that you will join me on this journey of dietary depravity.