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Dante’s hell. Local food. What could go wrong?

Warming up the stove...

Our friend JJ Gonson (a fabulous locavore chef, and a true supporter of the auntieChef team from the beginning!) is hosting “O.N.C.E. in Hell: Dante’s Inferno in 10 Courses” December 15, 16, and 17th at Oberon, the American Repertory Theatre’s Harvard Square venue.

Yes, a culinary and theatrical interpretation of Dante’s “Divine Comedy.”

The delicious courses promise to be heavenly.  Diners will enjoy plates of some Purgatory.  Luxuriate in some locovore Lust.  I can’t even imagine what she’ll come up with for Gluttony, Wrath, Violence… ?  She’s hard at work perfecting some of the sinful foodie delights for the night.  “I was thinking about how to really do Avarice right, truth be told,” she wrote to me.  The course has to be sufficiently “greedy or spendy.”

And how about Heresy?  “Heresy has just been hard for everyone, but a lot of things happen in Heresy.” So true.

Major points for toasty ambiance?

Fair warning, my veggie friends – apparently, its hard to be sinful and vegetarian at the same time – this particular O.N.C.E. will be geared towards the carnivorous.

JJ is the whirlwind locavore culinary talent behind O.N.C.E. (“One Night Culinary Event”).  For those of you who may not be in-tune with the Boston locavore intelligensia, O.N.C.E. is basically a scrumptious 3-hour, 10-course, locally-sourced dinner party conceived of and prepared by JJ’s crew at Cusine en Locale.

So check it out – nothing like a delicious Inferno to warm up the winter nights!