Rare Flavours

Rubin Baksh is a Rakshasa, a demon, with an oddly ordinary ambition: he wants to be the next Anthony Bourdain. To make it happen he needs a camera and someone to point it.

He hires Mo, a filmmaker whose career has seen better days. Their plan is to travel through India, filming its celebrated food and the people who cook it.

Mo soon learns that Rubin is not what he seems. The mortals they meet are given a darker part in the show than they ever agreed to, and the series they are making has a hunger of its own.

The book is a supernatural horror comic set in the world of Indian cuisine and chef-driven celebrity. Myths, culinary history and recipes run through the story, so the dread arrives alongside food written about with real appetite. It comes from the creative team behind The Many Deaths of Laila Starr, writer Ram V and artist Filipe Andrade, and collects issues #1 to 6 of the series.

The question is what Mo is really filming, and what it will cost the people who appear on camera.