from the editor
Editor’s Letter | Melissa L. Caldwell
celebrations
How the Presidents Ate Their Salmon | Catherine Schmitt
Field & Forrest—Thanksgiving | David Blair
A Taste of Home: A North Ossetian New Year’s Eve Feast | Jenny Holm
investigations
Daily Dose: Drinking Maté in Asunción, Paraguay | Heather Millman
The Kitchen God of Chinese Lore | Carolyn Phillips
Border Meals: Detention Center Feeding Practices, Migrant Subjectivity, and Questions on Trauma | Megan A. Carney
Sharing Through Thought and Food: The Vision of Monk Epiphanios of Mylopotamos of Mount Athos | Elizabeth Chatellier
ruminations
At the Center of the Center of the New York Bagel | Matthew Gavin Frank
Pasta Pin | Lilah Hegnauer
Killing a Pig | Will McGrath
Peppers: A Voice-Over | Christopher Locke
Mama: What Goes Around Comes Around. The Food Chain | Idious Buguise
mysterious pleasures
Tossers’ Shifts | Chris Wiewiora
Mediterranean Food | Diane Gleason
French Press | Lilah Hegnauer
Sugar | Anca L. Szilágyi
The Secret of the Soup | Eric D. Lehman
just desserts
Lonely Pizzas | Shelly Errington
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