'This anthology from the Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild is full of twisted stories and tasteful recipes, along with tasteful stories and twisted recipes. Spaceships are served with pikelets, werewolves with chocolate, andmermaids with tea. And there’s pixies, spirits, beans, gods, damsels in distress, lots and lots of spices, thousand-year-old eggs and thoroughly modern bubble gum?' (Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild website).
The Gastronomicon contains 20 stories and 22 recipes from: Jenny and Stuart Barrow, Zara Baxter, Conor Bendle, Mik Bennett, Geoff Byng, Lily Chrywenstrom, Donna Maree Hanson, Cameron Hill, Tessa Kum, Maxine McArthur, Robbie Matthews, T. L. Miller, Nicole R. Murphy, Gillian Polack, Allan Price, Peter Raftos, Barbara Robson, Kylie Seluka, Valerie Y. L. Toh, and Kaaron Warren.