FROM THE EDITOR
Editor’s Letter | The Gastronomica Editorial Collective
WHAT’S NEXT?
Compiled Letters to a Young Scholar | Krishnendu Ray and Amy Trubek
RESEARCH ESSAYS
Posthumanism Invited to Dinner: Exploring the Potential of a More-Than-Human Perspective in Food Studies | Sarah Elton
The New Mediascape and Contemporary American Food Culture | Leigh Chavez Bush
Mr. Song’s Cheeses: Southern China, 1368–1644 | Miranda Brown
Authentic Dishes, Staged Identities: Thailand’s Cooking Schools for Tourists | Mary Beth Mills
CREATIVE REFLECTIONS
Blood, Sweat, and Tweezers: The Morality of Food Photography | Dan Macey
The Poetics of Food | Jessica Gigot
Food Studies Reimagined: Putting Experience on the Page | Henna Garrison
VISUAL ESSAY
Markets and the Making of Muslim Space in Urban China: Street Portraits from Xi’an’s Huimin Jie | Rick Halpern
READING BACK, LOOKING FORWARD
Favorite Essays from the Gastronomica Editorial Collective | The Gastronomica Editorial Collective
The Past, Present, and Future of Food Studies: An Oral History with Gastronomica‘s Editors | Simone Cinotto interviews Melissa L. Caldwell and Darra Goldstein
REVIEW ESSAY
Recipes for a Field: Translating Middle Eastern Cookbooks and the Horizons of Food Studies | Anny Gaul