This paper analyses six novels of different literary genres determination in which the semantic complex of food has a prominent role in the characterization of characters. The separate chapters of the paper are titled according to the gastronomic type of anti (heroes) appearing in the novel. The role of culinary motives and metaphors is explored within different literary discourses and although they do not belong to the so-called „gastronomic literature“ or „culinary prose“ they still share certain characteristics. The following novels were analyzed in the central part of the paper, from different theoretical starting points (monster theory and the rabelais (Rabelaisian)/Bakhtin's concept of overeating): Epitaph of a Royal Gourmet (1998.) and War for the Fifth Taste (2015.) by Veljko Barbieri; The Slynx (2010) by Tatjana Tolstoj; The Taste of a Man (1995) by Slavenka Drakulić; The Assassin's Hygiene (2000.) and Blue Beard (2013.) by Amélie Nothomb. The common feature of these novels is a prominent semantic complex of food, frequent gastronomic motives and gurman characters that take on specific functions in different genre patterns. This paper explores the theme of food and culinary metaphors in the dystopiann worlds, overeating that is according to Bakhtin always associated with the grotesque and fantastic, and the concept of body in literature which when exposed to danger, can be perceived as a food. The aim of the paper is to present the role of food in novels through a specific type of gastro-hero in different literary genres (dystopia, menippean satire, antimodernist dystopia, reversed menippean satire and subversive fairy tale).