Winter 2002, Volume 2, Number 1


from the editor
Talking Food History | Darra Goldstein

borborygmus
Rumblings from the World of Food

orts and scantlings
Pigeon’s Milk | Mark Morton

feast for the eye
Man Ray’s Electricité | Stefanie Spray Jandl

essay
Messages in a Bottle | Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett

inventions
The Patented Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich: Food as Intellectual
Property | Anna M. Shih

photographs
Heavy in White | Lynn Bianchi

investigations
Alaska’s Vanishing Arctic Cuisine | Zona Spray
The Origins of Trachanás: Evidence from Cyprus and Ancient Texts | William Woys Weaver
“We Eat First With Our Eyes”: On Ghanaian Cuisine | Fran Osseo-Asare

fundamentals
Apple Parers: A Slice of American History | Don Thornton

poem
A conversation between Huidobro and Braque | Shin Yu Pai

libations
Confessions of a Tea Drinker | Marguerite Dorian

remains of the day
Shelf Life | Jeanne Schinto

memoir
Memories of an Exiled Shetlander | Ethel G. Hofman

archive
On Being Married to M.F.K. Fisher | Joan Reardon

origins
Pho: The Vietnamese Addiction | Alexandra Greely

evolutions
Brownies: A Memoir | Lisa Yockelson

working on the food chain
Food Irradiation | Robert L. Wolke

chef’s page
Savoy | Peter Hoffman

wwfood
The Emerald Isle | John McKenna

spilled beans
The East Passage Club | Sylvia M. Henderson

at the movies
Tortilla Soup | Jim Stark

review essay
Getting Sauced Sitting Down | Duncan Holmes

the bookshelf
Books in Review

lagniappe
The Bloomsday Diet | Elizabeth Petrosian

Cover: George Tooker, Lunch (1964). The Collection of Philip J. and Suzanne Schiller, American Social Commentary Art, 1930-1970, Highland Park, IL. Courtesy of the artist and D.C. Moore Gallery, New York.