Here’s how Hannibal serves up such mouthwatering human flesh

And that’s where Janice Poon enters the story. As Hannibal’s food stylist, Poon is responsible for making food look as if it were made of people. As fans know, she also has had to create “fake-out” dishes where Hannibal makes dishes that others think are human-sourced, but are not. She spoke to Hopes&Fears about her work on the show, including how she got from writing a children’s book to making fake cannibal cuisine, when digital enhancement is necessary, what foods make the best substitute for the good doctor’s soylent vert, and what constitutes the process she refers to as the “Hannibalization” of dishes featured on the show. You can read the full interview here. Poon also blogs about her work extensively, and it’s worth checking out if you like to see how the sausage is literally made for the foods on this show.

And if you’d like to join the nearly 75,000 signers petitioning NBC to save your favorite broadcast network villain, you can do so over at Change.org. Or perhaps you’d like to see a foreign distributor pick up Hannibal and film it in international waters, allowing Mads Mikkelsen to serve up actual people to his co-stars. On second thought, it’s probably best to sign the petition to keep it on NBC.