from the editor
Food Politics | Darra Goldstein and E. Melanie DuPuis
borborygmus
Rumblings from the World of Food
orts and scantlings
Weighty Words | Mark Morton
feast for the eye
Vik Muniz’s Ten Ten’s Weed Necklace | Vanessa Silberman
poem
Pomegranate | Meghan Adler
border crossings
Enemy Kitchen: An Interview with Michael Rakowitz | Liza Johnson
semantics
The Disappearance of Hunger in America | Patricia Allen
landscape
The American Farm | Jason Houston
investigations
Angels and Vegetables: A Brief History of Food Advice in America | E. Melanie DuPuis
Kills a Body Twelve Ways: Bread Fear and the Politics of “What to Eat?” | Aaron Bobrow-Strain
sociology
Policing Pleasure: Food, Drugs, and the Politics of Ingestion | Craig Reinarman
photo essay
Tequila Shots | Marie Sarita Gaytán
labor
Labor, Migration, and Social Justice in the Age of the Grape Boycott | Matthew Garcia
antipathies
Can’t Stomach it: How Michael Pollan et al. Made Me Want to Eat Cheetos | Julie Guthman
inventions
Vertical Farming: An Interview with Dickson Despommier | Peter Platt
working on the food chain
Understanding Receptivity to Genetically Modified Foods | John T. Lang and Susanna Hornig Priest
community
Growing Resistance: Food, Culture and the Mo’ Better Foods Farmers’ Market | Alison Hope Alkon
health
Risky Food, Risky Lives: The 1977 Saccharin Rebellion | Carolyn de la Peña
“Saving” Soul Food | Kimberly Nettles
point of view
A Heretic in the Church of Food | Joseph Schultz
chef’s page
Ken’s Artisan Bakery, Portland, Oregon | Ken Forkish
the bookshelf
Books in Review
lagniappe
Happier Meal | Jocelan Hillton
Cover: Daniel Jackson, Pair, 2002. Oil on panel 13″ x 14″. Courtesy of Robert Desantis.