Winter 2012, Volume 12, Number 4

from the editor
A Lovely Ride | Darra Goldstein

borborygmus
Rumblings from the World of Food

orts and scantlings
Flesh and Blood | Mark Morton

feast for the eye
A 1939 World’s Fair Souvenir Plate | Shax Riegler

poem
Calon Ségur 1945 | Michael Joyce

family history
Kieflies | Alison Kinney

gallery
Brighton Beach | Michael Friedman and Alexander Tochilovsky

history’s table
Marisa Mori’s Edible Futurist Breasts | Jennifer Griffiths

taste
Journey by Bottle: Uncovering the Allure of Guyanese Cassareep | Darrin DuFord

local fare
Simit: Turkey’s National Bread | Alisa Roth

investigations
Slush on the Mizzentops, Butter in the Hold: Food on American Clipper Ships | Andrew Beahrs
Solider of the Fork: How Nathaniel Newnham-Davis Democratized Dining | Andrea Broomfield

culture
A Kodava Wedding | Rohan Kamicheril

poem
Reason Number Four | Margaret Lincoln

religion
A Rat on the Plate: The Last Supper Window in Saint Mary’s Church, Warwick | Olivier Bauer

cuisine
Sudado de Raya: An Ancient Peruvian Dish | Robert Bradley

the natural world
The Tradescants’ Culinary Treasures | Amy L. Tigner

literary lives
James Bond and the Art of Eating Eggs | Elizabeth Hale

personal history
On the Zampone Trail | John F. Carafoli

temporality
Melancholy and Mourning: Black Banquets and Funerary Feasts | Jane Levi

photographs
Bibimbap | Toby Binder

ecology
A Born-Again Hog Farmer | Barry Estabrook

chef’s page
An Interview with Praveen Anand, Dakshin, Chennai, India | Vijaysree Venkatraman

review essay
Food, Service, and Play in Restaurant Culture | Jennifer Burns Levin

the bookshelf
Books in Review

lagniappe
Deep-Fried Gadgets | Henry Hargreaves

Cover: Richard Paul, 100s&1000s, © 2009. Courtesy of Theodore:Art, New York.