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Haunting Notes: Reckonings of an Unmasked Palate

by Tracy C. Mansfield

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First Edition, First Online Compilation (April, 2026)

Some versions of some of the individual chapters have existed since 2015. Many are dated at the bottom.

Much of the following boilerplate is copied from its original use in Residual Trace.

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Attributions

Prologue Epigraph: Tucci, Stanley (2021) Taste: My Life Through Food, Gallery Books (ch. 5)

Ingredients Epigraph: Rosenthal, Phil (August 25, 2025) “Phil Rosenthal is Hungry… and Subversive”, The Best People With Nicolle Wallace (0:58-1:04)

Drinks Epigraph: Dubos, Rene (1981) Celebrations of Life, McGraw-Hill

Sweets Epigraph: Krouse Rosenthal, Amy, and Corace, Jen (2005) Little Pea, Chronicle Books.

Mains - General Epigraph: Conroy, Pat, and Williamson Pollak, Suzanne (2004) The Pat Conroy Cookbook: Recipes and Stories of My Life, Nan A. Talese (end of ch. 7)

Mains - Vegetarian Epigraph: Goodall, Jane (2017, April 28). “Why I went plant-based (and why we should all eat less meat),” Jane Goodall Institute. news.janegoodall.org (Retrieved April 25, 2026)

Mains - Vegan Epigraph: Buck, Pearl S (1954) My Several Worlds, John Day: New York (ch. IV)

Baking Epigraph: Personal communication with Dewey E. Mansfield, Jr., quoting Dewey E. Mansfield, Sr.

Leftovers Epigraph: Doyle, Arthur Conan (1890, February), “The Sign of the Four,” Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine, Vol. 45, Philadelphia (p. 172).

Back Matter Epigraph: Dickens, Charles (1870) “How Mr. Sapsea Ceased to Be a Member of the Eight Club”, unpublished material intended for The Mystery of Edwin Drood (aka “The Sapsea Fragment”) posthumously included by John Foster (1874) The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. 3, pp. 425-426

Cover design: “Le Goûter” (The Snack or Just a Taste) by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1901), with Affinity Photo liberally applied by the author. The fonts are Gossamer (licensed through FontBros) and Zapfino. (A copy of this painting was retrieved from The Art Renewal Center under membership.)

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