from the editor
Who Doesn’t Like Comfort Food? | Darra Goldstein
borborygmus
Rumblings from the World of Food
cartoon
Sidney Harris
orts and scantlings
Sweet Nothings | Mark Morton
feast for the eye
From Field to Frame: The Fine Art of Crop Art | Diana Johnson
past pleasures
Consider the Eel | Richard Schweid
poem
Love Soup | Kathryn Hellerstein
memoir
An Edible Adolescence | Alexandra Stein
investigations
Women Who Eat Dirt | Susan Allport
The Best “Chink” Food: Dog Eating and the Dilemma of Diversity | Frank H. Wu
design
Designing Technology for Domestic Spaces: A Kitchen Manifesto | Genevieve Bell and Joseph “Jofish” Kaye
taste
Asparagus Ice Cream, Anyone? | Jeri Quinzio
archive
A la recherche de la tomate perdue: The First French Tomato Recipe? | Barbara Santich
photographs
Gail Skoff
diet
The Raw Deal | Gayle Forman
slow foods
Spanish Thistle-Bloom Cheese | Rosa Tovar
humor
The Child’s Physiology of Taste | Stephanie Hartman
chef’s page
One Market, San Francisco, California | Adrian Hoffman
wwfood
Cuisine with a Conscience | Lisa F’rare Winbladh
review essays
Revolutions in Wine | Tara Q. Thomas
Strange Foods | Andrew Chase
notes on vintage volumes
Berney’s Mystery of Living and Other Nineteenth-Century Cooking Magazines | Jan Longone
the bookshelf
Books in Review
lagniappe
Gastronomic Encounters | Dana Cook
Cover: Edward Hopper, Table for Ladies (1930). Detail. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, George A. Hearn Fund, 1931 (31.62). Photograph © 1983 The Metropolitan Museum of Art