Summer 2015, Volume 15, Number 2
FROM THE EDITOR
Editor’s Letter | Melissa L. Caldwell
RESEARCH BRIEF
Red Meat: American Political Banquets and Partisan Culture | Gary Alan Fine and Christine Simonian Bean
RESEARCH ESSAYS
Hashiri, Sakari, Nagori: Toward Understanding the Psychology, Ideology, and Branding of Seasonality in Japanese Gastronomy | Scott Haas
Seeing and Tasting: The Evolution of Dessert in French Gastronomy | Maryann Tebben
Dinner in the Current Age: A Translation from Paris à table | J. Weintraub
“Dirty, Authentic . . . Delicious”: Yelp, Mexican Restaurants, and the Appetites of Philadelphia’s New Middle Class | Dylan Gottlieb
Food Hackers: Political and Metaphysical Gastronomes in the Hackerspaces | Denisa Kera, Zack Denfeld, and Cathrine Kramer
CRITICAL REFLECTIONS
Filipino: The Five-Step Plan | Corina Zappia
The Garden & Gun Club | Heather Richie
Table for One | James Nolan
Two Weeds Unwilded | Tom Celebrezze
The Dialectic of Bar-be-cue | Brett Busang
REVIEW ESSAY
China’s Incredible Food, from Ancient Times to 1950s Honolulu | Carolyn Phillips
REVIEWS
Food Transgressions: Making Sense of Contemporary Food Politics By Michael K. Goodman and Colin Sage, Reviewed by Emma McDonell
Inventing Baby Food By Any Bentley, Reviewed by Zofia Boni
Gentlemen Bootleggers: The True Story of Templeton Rye, Prohibition, and a Small Town in Cahoots By Bryce T. Bauer, Reviewed by Lisa Ossian
Inside the California Food Revolution: Thirty Years that Changed our Culinary Consciousness By Joyce Goldstein, Reviewed by Erica J. Peters
No Experience Necessary: The Culinary Odyssey of Chef Norman Van Aken By Norman Van Aken, Reviewed by Stas Shectman
Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat By Bee Wilson, Reviewed by Zenia Malmer
BOOKS RECEIVED
JUST DESSERTS
What Would Really Taste Good | Shelly Errington
Top Image:
FIGURE 3: Soaking in the private bath overlooking the forest surrounding The Kayotei offers one the privilege of reimagining Japan as an idyll; the realities of twenty-first-century life can seem remote. Photograph by jiro takeuchi © 2011
FIGURE 4: Japanese speak with reverence of living with nature. Tokyo, a city of over 30 million, may be the balance to that idealism. Photograph courtesy of Park Hyatt Tokyo.