slemslempike | Novel Foods

I wish that The Advisory Committee on Novel Foods and Processes was actually about food in novels. Rachel Conroy would be the Chief Exec, having risen up through the organisation after piloting a revolutionary programme of comprehensive cataloguing and practical testing. The ACNFP in my head provides information on modern subsitutions for out-dated ingredients, runs workshops encouraging writers to develop characterisation through imagining the eating habits of their protagonists, and of course, is the organisation at the bottom of articles about the Famous Five wearily pointing out that lashings of ginger beer is not a phrase from the books. Their stalwart management board are resisting growing political pressure to take on a role in promoting healthy eating - one bright spark who suggested warning stickers on books such as "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" has found themself in the rationing and austerity division, heading up the Insects as Survival Nutrients team, in the hope that this will cure them of having counterproductive ideas.