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
Reimagining Food: Student Brief on Emerging Trends | Omar Lopez
creative works
Drinking His Wine | Jake Young
Names of Rice in Lao | Dave Snyder
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