Abstract
In this article we aim to address the subject of food in literature as an emi- nently negative factor. Viewed through the prism of the “nocturnal regime of the imaginary” (G. Durand) food can be represented by the mystery of darkness, so that a clear aspect of the “kitchen motif that doubles as an anti-kitchen” (Claude Lévi-Stauss) is fully outlined. We will bring as examples fragments and analyzes of texts from curses, fairy tales, stories, literary texts that contain allusions to the gastronomy of negative menus/predispositions that influence personal human behavior and the negative propensity on others fragments of myths that contain clues about gastronomy and the origin of food in a negative context. We will refer to the indirect description of the character starting from the consumption of food as displeasu- re, need or habit. We will reflect on the consumption of strange/shocking food who turn the characters into superheroes (they have unsuspected powers, they can do what they previously couldn’t), or it put them under the sign of disgrace and repulsion.