Category: Issues

Editorial Letter | James Farrer

PAIRINGS

Diptychs from Las Californias | Jess Stephens

AUTHENTICITIES

Theorizing Authenticity: Introduction to the Special Section | Lauren Crossland-Marr and Elizabeth L. Krause

Authentic Possibilities: Uncommon Lessons from Slow Figs and Fast Fashion | Elizabeth L. Krause

Authenticity and Its Perils: Who Is Left Out When Food Is “Authentic”? | Jillian R. Cavanaugh

Quality and Genuineness in the World of Sicilian Olive Oil | Amanda Hilton

Crafting Futures through Cheese-Making in Val Taleggio (Northern Italy) | Cristina Grasseni

TEMPORALITIES

Toward a Poetics of Chile . . . in Another Mexico | Victor Valle

Setting the Table for Friendship | Janita Van Dyk

Kitchen Bytes: The Retrofuturism of Kitchen Computers and Robots | Alex Ketchum

BORDERS

The Map and the Menu: Julia Child and Changing Definitions of the US Frontier | Blake Allmendinger

From Panocha to Fudge: Mexican Roots of an American Candy | Patrick Charbonneau and Jeffrey M. Pilcher

Recreating Colonial Mexican Fudge: Panochita in the Culinaria Kitchen Laboratory | Patrick Charbonneau, Kelsey Kilgore, and Jeffrey M. Pilcher

REVIEWS

Tainted Tap: Flint’s Journey from Crisis to Recovery by Katrinell M. Davis, reviewed by Alison Hope Alkon

Meat the Future , a flim by Liz Marshall, reviewed by Joel Dickau

Gastropolitics and the Specter of Race: Stories of Capital, Culture, and Coloniality in Peru by María Elena García, reviewed by Joseph P. Feldman

The Scarcity Slot: Excavating Histories of Food Security by Amanda Logan, reviewed by Joeva Sean Rock

Diners, Dudes, and Diets: How Gender and Power Collide in Food Media and Culture by Emily J. H. Contois, reviewed by Ana Tominc

Editorial Letter | Paula J. Johnson

CHANGES IN THE WATER

The Smell of Water: A Liquid Witness to Environmental Change in the Amazon | Chanelle Dupuis

Ceviche Revolution: Coastal Cholera, Marine Microplastics, and (Re)Fashioning Identities in Postcolonial Peruvian Gastropolitics | Rebecca Irons

Pirogues to Paradise? | Dawn Starin

The Uncertain Future of New Mexico Chile: Can a Heritage Crop Adapt to Water Scarcity? | Holly Brause

DRINKING WATER

Give Us Seltzer, That We May Drink: How Soda Water became a Jewish Icon | James Edward Malin

Seeing the Kanda River | James Farrer

Tasting Water at Canal Convergence 2021: An Experiment in Embodied Remembering | Christy Spackman, Marisa Manheim, and Shomit Barua

FIRST PERSON

“Don’t wait for me for lunch”: A Voyage and Memory Collage through a Family Food Archive | Camille Bégin

How the Work Gets Done | Margaret Ann Snow

Concerned about Climate? You Should be Eating Rabbit | Amy Finley

FOOD AND STORYTELLING

Mieux | Oliver Pagani

Fried Goose Eggs | Sandra Trujillo

REVIEWS

Caribeños at the Table: How Migration, Health, and Race Intersect in New York City, by Melissa Fuster
reviewed by Noah Allison

Front of the House, Back of the House: Race and Inequality in the Lives of Restaurant Workers, by Eli Revelle Yano Wilson
reviewed by Natasha Bunzl

Moveable Gardens: Itineraries and Sanctuaries of Memory, edited by Virginia D. Nazarea and Terese Gagnon
reviewed by Noha Fikry

Imperial Wine: How the British Empire Made Wine’s New World, by Jennifer Regan-Lefebvre
reviewed by Julia Fine

A Taste of My Life: A Memoir in Essays and Recipes, by Chitrita Banerji
reviewed by Kashyapi Ghosh

Brewing a Boycott: How a Grassroots Coalition Fought Coors and Remade American Consumer Activism, by Allyson P. Brantley
reviewed by Peter A. Kopp

Editorial Letter | Melissa Fuster

CONFLICTS AND TRANSFORMATIONS

The War in Ukraine and Food Security in Eastern Europe |
Eszter Krasznai Kovács, Agata Bachórz, Natasha Bunzl, Diana Mincyte, Fabio Parasecoli, Simone Piras, and Mihai Varga

Designing the Future of Polish Food: How Cosmopolitan Tastemakers Prototype a National Gastronomy | Mateusz Halawa and Fabio Parasecoli

Eating America | Joanne Jacobson

Tangled | Jaina Cipriano

UPROOTED AND TRANSFORMED

Across Time, Space, and Matter: A Panel Discussion on Food in the Hispanic World | H. Rosi Song, Rebecca Earle, Melissa Fuster, Lara Anderson, and Jordana Mendelson

Who Owns Bogurar Doi? An Ethnography of Placemaking and Craftsmanship in Bangladesh | Ishita Dey

Toast Hawaii | Sebastian Ocklenburg

Immigrant Birds: Serbian-Style Fried Chicken in the Magic City | Matthew Meduri

ADAPTING FOR OTHERS

The Language of Spoons | Kristin King Gilbert

The “Worst Dinner Guest Ever”: On “Gut Issues” and Epistemic Injustice at the Dinner Table | Megan A. Dean

When Knowledge Is Not Enough | Robert T. Valgenti

Doubtful Guests, Harassed Hosts, and the Golden Rule | Matthew Smith

Epistemic Exuberance at the Dinner Table: A Response to Megan A. Dean | Jacques Rousseau

Short Breaks Are for Hot Chocolate, Long Breaks Are for Salads,Weekends Are for Baking: On Being a Graduate Student during COVID-19 | Noha Fikry

REMEMBERING AND PRESERVING

Embodied Knowledge in a Family Photograph | Jay DiBiasio

Eva’s Bowl | Barb Webb

REVIEWS

Food in Cuba: The Pursuit of a Decent Meal, by Hanna Garth
reviewed by Olivia Barnett-Naghshineh

Food Insecurity on Campus: Action and Intervention, edited by Katharine M. Broton and Clare L. Cady
reviewed by Michael Classens

Planet Palm: How Palm Oil Ended Up in Everything—and Endangered the World by Jocelyn C. Zuckerman
reviewed by Jamie Cohen

Food for the Rest of Us, directed by Caroline Cox
reviewed by Ayana Curran-Howes

L’unique et le véritable: Réputation, origine et marchés alimentaires (vers 1680–vers 1830) by Philippe Meyzie
reviewed by Rengenier C. Rittersma

How the Other Half Eats: The Untold Story of Food and Inequality in America by Priya Fielding-Singh
reviewed by Tiana Bakić Hayden

Editorial Letter: The Miracle of Castelvetro | Lisa Haushofer

Miracle in a Time of Dregs | Gregory Emilio

FOUND IN TRANSLATION: BARRIERS OF LANGUAGE

Translating Foods of the World: A Roundtable Discussion on the Challenges and Triumphs of Translating Foods | hosted by Krishnendu Ray, featuring Miranda Brown, Saumya Gupta, Eric C. Rath, and Robert T. Valgenti

Recipe for Rice and Beans: Sabor and Culinary Imaginaries in Puerto Rico in Ana Lydia Vega and Carmen Aboy Valldejuli | Mónica B. Ocasio Vega

ACROSS BORDERS: MIGRANT EXPERIENCES

what is fried is gold | Jason Edward Pagaduan

“Looking for true Mexican food in Charlotte”: Insights into How Authenticity Is Produced, Experienced, and Interpreted in Migrant Food Spaces | Consuelo Carr Salas, Colleen Hammelman, Sara Tornabene

Seeing Mediterranean: How Food Journalists Re-Imagined the Middle East and North Africa in the Twentieth-Century United States | Jennifer Dueck

BEYOND PROFESSIONAL DEMARCATIONS: FOOD AND AGRICULTURAL IMAGINARIES

Biodynamic Viticulture, or The Effectiveness of Symbols | Eleonora Rossero, Andrea Barbieri

“Leave No Stone Unturned”: Sustainable Belonging and Desirable Futures of African American Food Imaginaries | Endia Louise Hayes, Norah MacKendrick

B. Smith (1949–2020)—In Memoriam | Kimberly D. Nettles-Barcelón

PRESERVED FOR TOMORROW: BOUNDARIES OF TIME

Today’s Children, Tomorrow’s Meals: Rooftops as Spaces of Nurturance in Contemporary Egypt | Noha Fikry

Preserving Flesh and Spanning Families | Indira Arumugam

Two Words That Will Get You Out of Any Jam and into Your Best Life | Kelly White

REVIEWS

Table Lands: Food in Children’s Literature, by Kara K. Keeling and Scott T. Pollard
reviewed by Shayne Leslie Figueroa

A Recipe for Gentrification: Food, Power, and Resistance in the City, edited by Alison Hope Alkon, Yuki Kato, and Joshua Sbicca
reviewed by Sarah Fouts

Porkopolis: American Animality, Standardized Life, & the Factory Farm, by Alex Blanchette
reviewed by Josée Johnston

Taste Makers: Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America, by Mayukh Sen,
reviewed by Alice McLean

Our Daily Bread: A Meditation on the Cultural and Symbolic Significance of Bread throughout History, by Predrag Matvejević, translated by Christina Pribichevich-Zorić,
reviewed by Todd C. Ream

Feral Atlas: The More-than-Human Anthropocene, curated and edited by Anna L. Tsing, Jennifer Deger, Alder Saxena Keleman, and Feifei Zhou
reviewed by Janita Van Dyk

Editorial Letter | Josée Johnston

FOODS ON THE MOVE

The Nation and the Noodle: Indomie and Identity in Indonesia | Joe Clifford

Who Eats, Where, What, and How? COVID-19, Food Security, and Canadian Foodscapes | Kimberly Hill-Tout, Claudia Hirtenfelder, Kiera E. B. McMaster, and Megan Herod

Follow the Ferments: Inclusive Food Governance in Arizona | Sara El-Sayed and Christy Spackman

FLOWS OF FOOD, POWER, AND TASTE

From “Isn’t It Raw?” to Everyday Food: Authenticating Japanese Food in Perth, Australia | Satomi Fukutomi

Farmworkers, Climate Change, and “Converging Crises” | Anelyse M. Weiler

“Nothing says gentrification like being able to order a cortado”: How does food reinforce gentrification…but also inspire resistance? A conversation with Alison Hope Alkon, Yuki Kato, and Joshua Sbicca | Josée Johnston and Michael Chrobok

ROOTEDNESS IN BODY AND PLACE

The Quest for an Ideal Culinary Hyperlocalism | Samuel Yamashita

Food Access, Identity, and Taste in Two Rural Cuban Communities | Krystyn R. Moon, Jennifer Rhode Ward, José Vazquez Rodriguez, Jorge Foyo

Does This Make Me Look Fat? | Nancy Gagliardi

“El Viudo De Pescado”: Living Waters, Living Food | Diana Bocarejo and Rafael Diaz

FOOD AND FAMILY

Lola’s Good Corn | Sandra Trujillo

Table for One: The Best Seat in the House | Michael DiMartino

A Personal History of Jamaican Black Cake | Corrine Collins

REVIEWS

The Problem with Feeding Cities: The Social Transformation of Infrastructure, Abundance, and Inequality in America, by Andrew Deeners
reviewed by Tiana Bakić Hayden

Peach State, by Adrienne Su
reviewed by Eric Himmelfarb

FAT, by Regina Hofer
reviewed by Kathleen LeBesco

Amber Waves: The Extraordinary Biography of Wheat, from Wild Grass to World Megacrop, by Catherine Zabinski
reviewed by André Magnan

Roadrunner: A Film about Anthony Bourdain, by Morgan Neville
reviewed by Signe Rousseau

On an Empty Stomach: Two Hundred Years of Hunger Relief, by Tom Scott-Smith
reviewed by Benjamin Siegel

Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal, by Mark Bittman
reviewed by Johanna Wilkes