Summer 2014, Volume 14, Number 2

Summer 2014, Volume 14, Number 2

From the Editor
Editor’s Letter | Melissa L. Caldwell

meet the author
Demanding Justice Behind the Kitchen Door: An Interview with Saru Jayaraman | Rebecca Feinberg

research essays
From Oysters to Olives at the Olympia Café: Greek Migrants and Australian Foodways | Toni Risson

Tasting Cultural Ecology: Foodscapes of Sustainability in the Mediterranean | Tracey Heatherington

Food Justice and the Challenge to Neoliberalism | Alison Hope Alkon

Taste – In an Age of Surfeit | Joanne Finkelstein

Culinary Pataphysics: Dining, Theatre, and the Historical Avant-Garde | Kevin Landis

critical reflections
The Unmaking of a Pig | Jessica Martell

Reflections on Sheep, Landscape, and Defining Locality | Isobel Grad

Eat to Kill | Cara Eisenpress

The Snack Market | Andrew Simmons

Lives of Pie | Stacy Adimando

Reimagining Food: Student Brief on Emerging Trends | Omar Lopez

creative works
Drinking His Wine | Jake Young

Names of Rice in Lao | Dave Snyder

Apples | Susan Comninos

Sunday Brunch | Peter Marcus

review essay
Kitchen Confidences | Reviewed by Gary Alan Fine
Back of the House, by Scott Haas
Behind the Kitchen Door, by Saru Jayaraman
Smart Casual, by Alison Pearlman

The Hands that Feed Us | Reviewed by Gloria Dawson
Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies, by Seth Holmes
With These Hands, by Daniel Rothenberg

reviews
Hidden Hunger: Gender and the Politics of Smarter Foods by Aya Hirata Kimura, reviewed by Megan A. Carney

Eating to Excess: The Meaning of Gluttony and the Fat Body in the Ancient World by Susan E. Hill, reviewed by Lynne Gerber

Coffee Life in Japan by Merry Isaacs White, reviewed by Christopher Laurent

Brewed in Japan: The Evolution of the Japanese Beer Industry by Jeffrey W. Alexander, reviewed by Malcolm Purinton

For God, Country & Coca-Cola: The Definitive History of the Great American Soft Drink and the Company That Makes It by Mark Pendergrast, reviewed by Abigail Carroll

The Medieval Cookbook by Maggie Black, reviewed by Noah Charney

books received

just desserts
Weekend Yoga Retreat | Shelly Errington