SOURCE: Hoffert, Barbara. Review of The Devil's Larder, by Jim Crace. Library Journal 126, no. 15 (15 September 2001): 115.

In the following review, Hoffert provides a favorable assessment of The Devil's Larder.

As evidenced by Being Dead, his National Book Critics Circle award winner, Crace is adept at creating unexpected worlds. In this tasty little collection [The Devil's Larder], he has created many—64, to be exact. From the grandmother who tears off a bit of dough “for the angel” to the adventurers who risk a tiresome, slightly surreal hike to dine at an inexplicably famous restaurant to the manager who devises an ultimately self-defeating means of keeping his waiters from sampling what they are serving. Crace's tales all concern the relationship between people and food. Quirky, unsettling, and sometimes slightly macabre, these aren't stories, exactly; few run more than a page and a half, and the last one consists of two (admittedly...