from the editor
Time Travels | Darra Goldstein
borborygmus
Rumblings from the World of Food
orts and scantlings
Table Manners | Mark Morton
feast for the eye
Zhan Wang: Urban Landscape | John Stomberg
poem
Sommelier | Zilka Joseph
politics
How Caviar Turned Out to Be Halal | H.E. Chehabi
essay
The Prize Inside | Toni Mirosevich
investigations
Twain’s Feast: “The American” at Table | Andrew Beahrs
The Medieval Spice Trade and the Diffusion of the Chile | Clifford A. Wright
culture
They Eat Horses, Don’t They? Hippophagy and Frenchness | Kari Weil
ritual
Heavenly Khao Chae-Aromatic Soaked Rice | Su-Mei Yu
diet
Lactose Intolerance and Evolution: No Use Crying Over Undigested Milk | Benjamin Scheindlin, MD
past pleasures
At the Prince’s Table: Food in The Leopard | Mary Taylor Simeti
classics
The Myth of Apicius | Sally Grainger
passages
Gâteaux Algériens: A Love Affair | Rachel Finn
personal history
Having What She’s Having | Scott Korb
libations
Simply Cachaça, Simply Brazil | Milton Mizputen
chef’s page
Ray’s Café and Tea House, Philadelphia | Laurie Bernstein
review essays
Two Ways of Looking at Maestro Martino | Nancy Harmon Jenkins
The Meat of the Issue | Betty Fussell
Flesh and Bone: Toward a Whole-beast Meat-eating Ethos | Tom Philpott
the bookshelf
Books in Review
lagniappe
Besos y Balas | Joe Bravo
Cover: Jean Blackburn, Thick or Thin, 1998. Rolling pin, board 4″ x 16″ x 16″. Courtesy of the Artist & Caren Golden Fine Art, NY. Photographer: Jeffrey Sturges.