JOSHUA CUTCHIN is a native of North Carolina with a long interest in forteana. He holds a Masters in Music Literature and a Masters in Journalism from the University of Georgia, and currently works as a public affairs specialist in the southeast. In addition to his media work, Cutchin is also a published composer and maintains an active performing schedule as a jazz and rock tuba player, having appeared on eight albums and live concert DVDs. He is also the author of The Brimstone Deceit and Thieves in the Night.
"The humble subject of food in anomalistic accounts serves, in
Cutchin's measured, learned, and lucid argument, as proof that high
strangeness events may be uncertain and discordant, but not
incomprehensible." - Thomas E. Bullard, folklorist (ret.), Indiana
University, Bloomington"Joshua Cutchin boasts an impressively
original concept for a book on anomalies: fortean food...What
Cutchin has done is to survey a fairly staggering range of
literature on folklore, anthropology, food science, psychedelics,
ufology, and cryptozoology, seeking people's claims to have
consumed something-food, liquid, pills-in the course of an
extraordinary encounter... [Cutchin] is a fortean in the fullest
and finest sense. He has ideas, and they're creative and
provocative ones... he is among the first to imagine that the food
allegedly consumed in these alleged encounters is a drug akin to
DMT, able to alter brain molecules and manipulate the
senses...Cutchin keeps his head secured in a keen fortean
appreciation of uncertainty and ambiguity, not to mention the
likelihood that these phenomena are way beyond our understanding. A
splendid job all around." - Jerome Clark, Fortean Times"[This is]
the definitive study of an aspect of the paranormal that has, until
now, been vastly unappreciated and consistently
misunderstood...[Cuchin shows that] the usually bland nature of the
food provided by today's extraterrestrials has its parallels in the
food of the faeries, which was made to appear and taste enriching
and delicious - but, in reality, was nothing of the sort: it was
all a ruse...He suggests that the theater of entity food is
designed to ease the shock of encountering the unknown. That's to
say, we are shown something to which we can relate, which comforts
us, and which calms us: food. The nourishment from beyond, then, is
'a symbolic vehicle to facilitate interaction.'...A Trojan Feast
absolutely nails it...this is a fantastic piece of work." - Nick
Redfern, Mysterious Universe"With A Trojan Feast, Joshua Cutchin
has FINALLY answered the question which has confounded all fans of
the Wachowskis: How could Neo be freed from the Matrix by ingesting
the red pill, if the pill only existed in the Matrix -i.e. it
wasn't 'real'? You wanna free your mind? Read this book!" - Red
Pill Junkie"Joshua Cutchin has brought together a contemplative and
truly unique folkloric analysis of the way that food and drink fits
into the broader narrative of purported strange phenomena. In doing
so, Cutchin provides, in the very truest sense, 'food for
thought.'" - Micah Hanks, author of Magic, Mysticism and the
Molecule
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