20 Mind-Blowing Facts You Didn't Know About Hannibal

20. Each Episode Is Named After A Different Foreign Food

Some will tell you that each episode of Hannibal gets its title from a course of a meal, but that's not quite correct. After all, there aren't thirteen courses in a French meal as there are thirteen episodes in the first season, and as quirky as they might be over there they don't dedicate entire plates in their dinner to eating “Oeuf” (egg) or “Fromage” (yoghurt).

Instead, each episode of Hannibal is named after some delicious foreign food stuff, as most often cooked and served up by the champion chef Dr Lecter (often subbing out some traditional ingredients for, say, a human lung or something like that). Besides being a creepy merging of quality dining and cannibalism, the names are often significant.

Like how the series premiere was called “Apéritif” (the drink you have before a French meal), with the third season's first episode “Antipasto” meaning a similar thing in Italian cooking. Meanwhile the seventh episode of season three skips to “Digestivo”, the drink you have at the end of a French meal – because the finale is in sight.