Spring 2024, Volume 24 Number 1

Editorial Letter | Robert T. Valgenti

AUTHENTI-CITIES
“A War Could be Going on Outside, and You Wouldn’t Even Know”: Performing Israeli Cuisine in a London Restaurant | Natasha Bernstein Bunzl

Bishakh Important Hoi (Trust Is Important): Masculinities, Trust, and the “Assamese” Pithas | Pooja Kalita

Food in the Shanghai Lockdown | Anna Greenspan

SUSTAIN-ABILITIES
Transformation Processes toward Low-Impact Pleasure: Rethinking Culinary Art with Karen Blixen’s “Babette’s Feast” (1950) | Sophie Wennerscheid

Mammoths, Metabolism, and Meta-Species: Controlling Biological Time in the Regimes of Lab-Grown Protein | Hallam Stevens

Remaking the Qualities of Turkish Olive Oil | Brian Silverstein

COMMEMO-RATIONS
Sacred Leftovers: Hosting and Eating after the Ancestors | Indira Arumugam

Swarn: A Tangled History of a Simple Dish | Jason A. Reuscher

Mr. De la Rosa’s Agua de Jamaica | Sandra Trujillo

REVIEWS
Staging the Table in Europe: 1500–1800 by Deborah L. Krohn, reviewed by Ken Albala

The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading about Eating, and Eating while Reading by Dwight Garner, reviewed by Jessica Carbone

The Political Relevance of Food Media and Journalism: Beyond Reviews and Recipes, edited by Elizabeth Fakazis and Elfriede Fürsich

Cooling the Tropics: Ice, Indigeneity, and Hawaiian Refreshment by Hi‘ilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart, reviewed by Mascha Gugganig

The Secret of Cooking: Recipes for an Easier Life in the Kitchen by Bee Wilson, reviewed by KC Hysmith

Embrace by Rohina Hoffman, reviewed by Mohini Mehta