Summer 2009, Volume 9, Number 3


from the editor
As American As… | Darra Goldstein

borborygmus
Rumblings from the World of Food

orts and scantlings
White Noise | Mark Morton

feast for the eye
“In Vino Veritas”: A Stoneware Jug and the Contradictions of Temperance | Jamie Franklin

poem
A Portion | Jennifer Arin

culture
Eating with Your Hands | Keridwen Cornelius

pastoral
Yasuo Kuniyoshi’s Cows in Pasture | Adam Greenhalgh

origins
La Finanziera | Francine Segan

investigations
The Water Gate Inn: Pennsylvania Dutch Cuisine Goes Mainstream | William Woys Weaver
The Low Countries and the English Agricultural Revolution | Jaap Harskamp

temporality
Eating at the Edge | Jamie Horwitz

slow foods
Möhrenlaibchen: How the Carrot Got into the Cheese | Ursula Heinzelmann

fading feast
A Lamentation for Shrimp Paste | Su-Mei Yu

pastimes
Collecting Recipes | Jeanine Larmoth

classics
Please Don’t Call It Pound Cake | Greg Patent

regional fare
Utica Greens: Central New York’s Italian-American Specialty | Naomi Guttman and Roberta L. Krueger

photographs
Six Portraits | Pinar Yolaçan

chef’s page
Savoy Cabbage, Capetown, South Africa | Peter Pankhurst

review essays
All the Fruit That’s Fit to Print | David Karp
A Winery Pastoral | Cory Bernat

the bookshelf
Books in Review

lagniappe
A Dog’s Life

Cover: Hongtu Zhang, Kimchi-Chanel, 1997. Plastic, kimchi. Courtesy of the artist.