from the editor
Something Provocative for Everyone | Darra Goldstein
borborygmus
Rumblings from the World of Food
orts and scantlings
Eggheads | Mark Morton
from the peanut gallery
Sophisticated | Leila Crawford
illustration
Coffee Escaping from a Cup | Rodney Greenblat
feast for the eye
Picasso’s El Bobo | Deborah Rothschild
lives
My Life and Loaves | Andrew Whitley
poetry
The Cup of Coffee | Elizabeth Spires
working on the food chain
Crops, Genes, and Evolution | Adrianne Massey
food play
Vegetable Paper | Michelle Ticknor
investigations
Food for the Bawdy: Johann of Bockenheim’s Registrum Coquine | Luigi Ballerini
Food Patterns in Agrarian Societies: The Core-Fringe-Legume Hypothesis | Sidney W. Mintz and Daniela Schlettwein-Gsell
Professor Blot and The First French Cooking School in New York (Part 2) | Jan Longone
personalities
The Countess of Kent | Paula Panich
fundamentals
The Corkscrew | Stephen J. Gendzier
libations
Port | Ray Isle
origins
Hart’s Desire | Nichola Fletcher
dining in
Collapsible Table | Sigridur Sigurjonsdottir
chef’s page
Firebird | Ari Nieminen
wwfood
The Land of Milk and Honey | Miri Zell Donati
spilled beans
Table Service | John Fischer
at the movies
Chocolat | Jim Stark
review essays
Why . . . the taste of sake? | John Kochevar
“A Honey of Roses:”
The Culture of Food in Shakespeare’s Day | Ilona Bell
the bookshelf
Books in Review
lagniappe
To Serve and Tease | Nero Blanc
Cover: Al Hansen, “Eyes Momma” (1987). Collection of Flaminio Gaggioni.
Courtesy of Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York.