“It has been written somewhere that ‘to depart is to die a little.’ Dali says that, ‘without any doubt, to eat—especially gastronomical repasts—is always ‘to die a lot.’ The Spector of death creates supreme delights, salivary expectations, and this is why the greatest of gastronomical refinements consists in eating ‘cooked and living beings,’ such as is described in this recipe by the Neapolitan of Catalan descent, Giambattista della Porta (1535-1615) - which I will suggest to you later on. Added to the sado-masochistic pleasure brought by this recipe, the latter fundamental law of our Catholic, Apostolic and Roman Rumanian religion, i.e. to swallow the living God as is done in the Sacrament of the Eucharist.” Excerpt from Les Diners de Gala (Gala’s Dinners), 1973, by Salvador Dalí.