Spring 2009, Volume 9, Number 2


from the editor
Doing Good | Darra Goldstein

borborygmus
Rumblings from the World of Food

orts and scantlings
A Linguistic History of Things Other than Food that People Have Put into Their Mouths | Mark Morton

feast for the eye
Renoir’s Onions | Fronia E. Wissman

poems
Senryu | Robert H. Deluty

pastimes
The Secret Lives of Recipes | Harriet Bell

taste
The Macaron and Madame Blanchez | Cindy Meyers

travel
Making Chipas in Paraguay | Sanra Ritten

investigations
Food in Films: A Star Is Born | Steve Zimmerman
Eating for Unity: Vegetarianism in the Early Unity School of Christianity | Jeremy Rapport

culture
Andy Warhol’s Production Kitchen | Elizabeth Athens

americana
Marshmallow Fluff | Katie Liesener

memoir
What We Ate Back Then | Jimmye Hillman

eating out
The Contraceptive Café | Dawn Starin

slow foods
On the Trail of Tilleul | Kelly Gibson

fiction
Restaurant Roundup | Andrew Zornoza

cartoon
Piece of Mind | Zachary Barowitz

worldwide food
China’s Dongbei Cuisine | Jacqueline M. Newman

chef’s page
A Cook’s Story, So Far | Payson Cushman

review essays
The Past Serves the Future | Charlotte Druckman
Edible | Margot Kaminski

the bookshelf
Books in Review

lagniappe
Periodic Breakfast Table | Catharine Weese

Cover: Tamara Kostianovsky, Motherland, 2007. Articles of clothing belonging to the artist and meat hook. 67 x 28 x 15 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Black and White Gallery / New York. Collection of Jerome
and Ellen Stern.