Still Life with Ham, by Philippe Rousseau, c. 1870. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund, 1982.

Food

Volume IV, Number 3 | summer 2011

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The Midas Touch

Lewis H. Lapham

The Imperial Kitchen

Jason Goodwin

Pastoral Romance

Brent Cunningham

Death in the Pot

Deborah Blum

Balanced Diets

Daniel Mason

It’s What’s for Dinner

Scott Korb

Map

Food Chains

Miscellany

Cervantes discovers the best sauce in the world.

A history of American alcohol consumption.

The Columbian Exchange of vegetables.

Thackeray swallows a small baby.

Calvin Coolidge settles a bet.

Gilded grub: the Wall Street burger.

Paul Newman has a lot of egg on his face.

A feast fit for a king.

Elvis and the Beatles enjoy a late night snack.

Puréed applesauce boldly goes where no food has gone before.

Missing the forest for the caviar.

Aldous Huxley starts the myth of the vomitorium.

Hungry hungry Hemingway.

The first airplane meals.

Scurvy spawns seal-clubbing.

Mao’s Great Leap Forward leaves millions behind.

Profiles in presidential hunger.

The origin of the the candy cane.

The Dickens diet for the depressed.

Water? W.C. Fields never touches the stuff.

Diogenes dreams of a cure for hunger.

Julia Child has no use for cilantro.

“I am the emperor, and I want dumplings.”

Twain sizes up the specialities south of the Mason-Dixon line.

Where the buffalo no longer roamed.

More Starbucks than one can stomach.

John Harvey Kellogg’s digestive “milk cure.”

A cook claims the first Olympic victory.

Voices In Time

Guest of Honor

c. 525 | Denmark

An Exercise in Willpower

362 | Phrygia

Of Such a Dish as Powdered Wife

1609 | Jamestown

Piggy Bank

c. 64 | Campania

What the Dead Ate

1764 | Paris

Paradigm Shift

1971 | Berkeley

Bread Is Gold

c. 1945 | Bergen-Belsen

Second Helpings

1837 | London

And the Snozzberries Taste Like Snozzberries

1546 | Holland

Boiled Not Flayed

c. 1876 | Arabia

If Aristotle Had Cooked

c. 1690 | Mexico City

Procedural

c. 50 BC | China

M.F.K. Fisher on the Basics

1949 | Los Angeles

None of the Above

1944 | Leicestershire

Procuring Impossibilities

1838 | Auteuil

No Small Parts

1923 | Missouri

To Preserve the Nation

1729 | Dublin

Taste of Knowledge

c. 3760 BC | Eden

Table Decoration

c. 1512 | Florence

Force-Feeding

1910 | Liverpool

It Just Tastes Better

1661 | London

Father Enki’s Amber Waves of Grain

c. 2200 BC | Sumer

An Omnivore’s Dilemma

c. 1795 | France

Hangover Cure

c. 1985 | El Paso

Waste Not, Want Not

c. 1965 | Nigeria

Hold the Chicken

1970 | Northern California

Dog Eat Dog

1777 | New Zealand

Playlist

1944 | St. Louis

Tonight’s Moon, Tomorrow’s Hangover

c. 1680 | Edo

Willa Cather Satisfies a Craving

1917 | Paris

Upton Sinclair Tours the Factory

1906 | Chicago

National Cuisine

1878 | Paris

Civil Abstinence

1854 | Walden

Kitchen Appliances

c. 1490 | Milan

No Seagull, Hold the Camel

c. 1250 BC | Mt. Sinai

Acquired Tastes

c. 1030 | China

Mess Hall

c. 625 BC | Sparta

The Only God That Counts

c. 1970 | Nigeria

Blood-Bought Luxuries

c. 1830 | Maryland

Abundant, Not Delicate

1832 | United States

Principle Versus Inclination

1724 | Block Island

Today’s Menu

1749 | London

Ravenous Jubilation

1634 | New France

Conspicuously Consuming Clergy

1180 | Canterbury

Tasting the Sweet and Sour

1771 | London

Culinary Tourism

1930 | England

The Death Cap

54 | Rome

Breakfast of Champions

1979 | Texas

Charts and Graphs

Foreign Delicacies

Party Fouls

Mind Your Manners

Last Meals

The Great Meal Theory of History

Meal Plans

Top Chefs

Food Fight

The Things They Ate

Melting Pots

Contributors

Conversations

Porphyry & Ted Nugent

Marguerite Gardiner & the Sedgwick Sisters

Ovid & Les Murray

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