Category: Issues

from the editor
The Nature of Nurture | Darra Goldstein

borborygmus
Rumblings from the World of Food

orts and scantlings
Boning Up on Language | Mark Morton

feast for the eye
Edward Ruscha’s Chocolate Room | Liza Statton

poem
The Reluctant Dinner Guest | Carolyn Miller

archive
A Medieval Food List from the Monastery of Cluny | Kirk Ambrose

culture shock
Italian Butcher Shop Blues | Matthew Gavin Frank

evolutions
Sake in the Wind | Jim Clarke

interview
Organic in Mexico: A Conversation with Diana Kennedy | L. Peat O’Neil

food arts
On Dining and Creating | Jim Denevan with Chesley Chen

investigations
Shakespearean Jell-O: Mortality and Malleability in the Kitchen | Wendy Wall
Barossa Slow: The Representation and Rhetoric of Slow Food’s Regional Cooking | Adrian Peace

taste
In Pursuit of the Cream Waffle | Lisa Yockelson

science
The Oyster’s French Revolution: Testing a Nation’s Reaction to a Lab-Produced Delicacy | Mohamed Merdji and Gervaise Debucquet, with Andrew Taylor

working on the food chain
“Pure” Maple Syrup? | Matthew Holmes

memoir
The Only Way to Know the Taste of a Pear Is to Eat It | Alexandra Stein

photographers
Back of the House | Michael Harlan Turkell

technology
Wheat into Flour: A Story of Milling | Fran Gage

chef’s page
Le Dog, Ann Arbor, Michigan | Jules Van Dyck-Dobos

review essays
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? Food Fights and Regime Change | Kyri Watson Claflin

the bookshelf
Books in Review

lagniappe
London City Tongue Plate | Miralda

Cover: Andy Warhol, Silver Coke Bottle (1967), silver paint on glass Coke bottle with metal cap, 8 x 2 3/8 inches. ©The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts/ARS, NY.

from the editor
Outstanding in the Field 2004 | Darra Goldstein

borborygmus
Rumblings from the World of Food

orts and scantlings
Mooreeffoc | Mark Morton

feast for the eye
Second Sight: The Art of Joan Steiner | D Wood

poem
From “The Cemetery Beside the River” | Melanie Cameron

diet
Slow Food in a Fat Society: Satisfying Ethical Appetites | Heather Paxson

industry
Cast with Style: Nineteenth-Century Cast-Iron Stoves | Tammis Kane Groft

culture
The Prose (and Cons) of Vodka | Dmitrii Stakhov; translated by Thomas Newlin

interview
The Cooking Ape: An Interview with Richard Wrangham | Elisabeth Townsend

origins
Sicilian Manna: A Sweet Gift of Nature | Anna Tasca Lanza

memoir
In Search of Neon | Raymond Beauchemin

passages
One Year and a Day: A Recipe for Gumbo and Mourning | James Nolan

americana
Man Eats Dogs: The Hot Dog Stands of Chicago | Bruce Kraig; photographs by Patty Carroll

nutrition
“Take One More Bite for Me”: Clara Davis and the Feeding of Young Children | Benjamin Scheindlin, MD

investigations
Measuring Ingredients: Food and Domesticity in Mexican Casta Paintings | Nina M. Scott
Have Your Coke and Eat It Too: What Cooking with Coca-Cola Says about Cultural Imperialism | Anne E. McBride
Solving the Puzzle of Barolo and Barbaresco | Brian Smith

chef’s page
The Old Inn on the Green | Timothy Q. Cebula

review essays
Consuming Art | Carol Clark
Crazy for Gin | Lisa Hiley

the bookshelf
Books in Review

lagniappe
Edible Hats | Alicia Rios

Cover: Oscar Rabine, “Signal and Laughing Cow” (2002); Courtesy of Michèle and Marc Ivasilevitch, A&C-Projects, Paris, France.