from the editor
Political Appetites | Darra Goldstein
borborygmus
Rumblings from the World of Food
orts and scantlings
A Man Walketh into a Bar | Mark Morton
feast for the eye
Banqueting at the Lord’s Table in Sixteenth-Century Venice | Katherine A. McIver
poem
Shopping with Henry David Thoreau | Thom Ward
taste
A New Reign of Terroir | Charlotte Druckman
community
“Breaking Bread with a Spread” in a San Francisco County Jail | Sandra Cate
photographs
Market and Meat | Charlie Grosso
society
Grab and Go: A Restless Nation Tanks Up | Maggie Jackson
design
Eye Candy | Laurene Leon Boym
investigations
The Taste of Fame: Chefs, Diners, Celebrity, Class | Gwen Hyman
Cooking Up American Politics | Nancy Siegel
musings
The Birth of Philosophy and Contempt for Food | Michiel Korthals
health
New Patient Questionnaire | Katherine Malmo Ellis
libations
Chasing Angels: The Sweet Wine Angelica | Hank Shaw
science
Brain Food | Bernard Agranoff
devotees
Mangoes and Poetry | James Mutti
working on the food chain
New Morning Farm | Arlo Crawford
americana
Sonker | Debbie Moose
personal history
Queen of de-Nile, Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Cairo | Zora O’Neill
chef’s page
An Interview with Tony Minichiello, Vancouver | Jonathan Levitt
review essays
Go Fish | Patricia Gadsby
Culinary Whodunits | Beatrice Fink
the bookshelf
Books in Review
lagniappe
Ballad of the Nontaster | Emily Matchar
Cover: Emmanuel Sougez, Still life with Lemons and Siphon, 1926-1928. Autochrome. 17.9 x 12.9 cm. Private collection, courtesy of Hans P. Kraus, Jr., New York.