from the editor
The Nature of Nurture | Darra Goldstein
borborygmus
Rumblings from the World of Food
orts and scantlings
Boning Up on Language | Mark Morton
feast for the eye
Edward Ruscha’s Chocolate Room | Liza Statton
poem
The Reluctant Dinner Guest | Carolyn Miller
archive
A Medieval Food List from the Monastery of Cluny | Kirk Ambrose
culture shock
Italian Butcher Shop Blues | Matthew Gavin Frank
evolutions
Sake in the Wind | Jim Clarke
interview
Organic in Mexico: A Conversation with Diana Kennedy | L. Peat O’Neil
food arts
On Dining and Creating | Jim Denevan with Chesley Chen
investigations
Shakespearean Jell-O: Mortality and Malleability in the Kitchen | Wendy Wall
Barossa Slow: The Representation and Rhetoric of Slow Food’s Regional Cooking | Adrian Peace
taste
In Pursuit of the Cream Waffle | Lisa Yockelson
science
The Oyster’s French Revolution: Testing a Nation’s Reaction to a Lab-Produced Delicacy | Mohamed Merdji and Gervaise Debucquet, with Andrew Taylor
working on the food chain
“Pure” Maple Syrup? | Matthew Holmes
memoir
The Only Way to Know the Taste of a Pear Is to Eat It | Alexandra Stein
photographers
Back of the House | Michael Harlan Turkell
technology
Wheat into Flour: A Story of Milling | Fran Gage
chef’s page
Le Dog, Ann Arbor, Michigan | Jules Van Dyck-Dobos
review essays
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? Food Fights and Regime Change | Kyri Watson Claflin
the bookshelf
Books in Review
lagniappe
London City Tongue Plate | Miralda
Cover: Andy Warhol, Silver Coke Bottle (1967), silver paint on glass Coke bottle with metal cap, 8 x 2 3/8 inches. ©The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts/ARS, NY.