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

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

Map

Miscellany

Voices In Time

Guest of Honor

c. 525 | Denmark

An Exercise in Willpower

362 | Phrygia

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

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

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

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

Culinary Tourism

1930 | England

The Death Cap

54 | Rome

Breakfast of Champions

1979 | Texas

Charts and Graphs

Contributors

Conversations

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