Editorial Letter | James Farrer
FOOD AND POWER
A Seat at the Table: The Western Dining Table as a Symbol of Power | Mackensie Griffin
“The Child Needs Milk and Milk Needs a Market”: The Politics of Nutrition in the Interwar Yishuv | Efrat Gilad
Ketchup as a Vegetable: Condiments and the Politics of School Lunch in Reagan’s America | Amy Bentley
CARE, WORK, AND MEMORY
Paqueteros and Paqueteras: Humanizing a Dehumanized Food System | Alyshia Gálvez
“If you haven’t shaoguo‘ed, you haven’t eaten”: Sensorial Landscapes of Belonging in the Kitchens of Rural China | Erin Thomason
Ruby’s Oyster Dressing, or Edible Nostalgia | Matthew Meduri
INTERROGATING THE CHEF
MasterChef: A Master Class in Fight, Flight, or Flambé? | Andrea Oskis
Around the World in 50 Restaurants: The Curious Irony of Hyperlocal Food | John Broadway
Spilling Ink and Cleaning Oil: The Intersection of Disaster and Design at La Marine | Rasmus R. Simonsen
COVID-19 DISPATCHES
Rumor, Chinese Diets, and COVID-19: Questions and Answers about Chinese Food and Eating Habits | Edited by Michelle T. King, Jia-Chen Fu, Miranda Brown, and Donny Santacaterina
Food Rescue Networks and the Food System | Leda Cooks
Feeding the City, Pandemic and Beyond: A Research Brief | Bryan Dale and Jayeeta Sharma
Lunch Interrupted! COVID-19 and Japan’s School Meals | Alexis Agliano Sanborn
“Muita Galinha, Pouco Ovo”: Food, COVID-19, and the Screen That Separates Us | Yara Ferreira Clüver
Bean Soup | Sayzie Koldys
Succulent | Alison Pearlman
Drinking to the Wolf in a Time of Pandemic (or War or Peace) | Gregory Emilio
REVIEWS
El Susto, a film by Karen Akins
Reviewed by Melissa Fuster
Just the Tonic: A Natural History of Tonic Water by Kim Walker and Mark Nesbitt
Reviewed by David Gentilcore
Black Food Geographies: Race, Self-Reliance and Food Access in Washington, D.C. by Ashanté M. Reese
Reviewed by Chhaya Kolavalli
De los plátanos de Oller a los Food Trucks: Comida, alimentación y cocina puertorriqueña en ensayos y recetas (From Oller’s Plantains to Food Trucks: Food, Eating, and Puerto Rican Cuisine in Essays and Recipes)
by Cruz Miguel Ortiz Cuadra, Reviewed by Mónica B. Ocasio Vega
When Banana Ruled, a film by Mathilde Damoisel
Reviewed by Alyssa Paredes
Stirrings: How Activist New Yorkers Ignited a Movement for Food Justice by Lana Dee Povitz
Reviewed by Chris Staysniak
The Chile Pepper in China: A Cultural Biography
by Brian R. Dott, Reviewed by Mark Swislocki