Table of Contents
2011 Summer
Food
Introductory
Voices in Time
Feast or Famine
- Paul Roberts on Big Box Food: 2008 / Washington, DC
- Bohumil Hrabal Serves Up the Roast Camel: c. 1939 / Prague
- Of Such a Dish as Powdered Wife: 1609 / Jamestown
- Hidden Sweetness: c. 1250 / Konya
- Moral Majority: 1972 / Andes Mountians
- Piggy Bank: c. 64 / Campania
- Second Helpings: 1837 / London
- Erasmus Schools All the Young Men: 1530 / Freiburg im Breisgau
- Harper Lee's Lesson in Good Manners: 1933 / Maycomb, AL
- Father Enki’s Amber Waves of Grain: c. 2200 BC / Sumer
- In the Grand Old Way: c. 1900 / Mbanta
- Peace Offering : c. 1200 BC / Troy
- Table Decoration: c. 1512 / Florence
- Turkeys Die Only Once: 1993 / New York City
- Bread is Gold: c. 1945 / Bergen-Belsen
- The Only God That Counts: c. 1970: Nigeria
- Let Them Eat Cake: 1869 / France
- Blood-Bought Luxuries: c. 1830 / Maryland
- Fullness Was All: c. 1918 / Sussex
- Barbara Demick Visits the Land of Scarcity: 1995 / Chongjin
- Icebox Note: 1934 / Rutherford, NJ
- Snobbish Comparisons: c. 125 / Rome
- Ravenous Jubilation: 1634 / New France
- Guest of Honor: c. 525 / Denmark
- Force-Feeding: 1910 / Liverpool
- Procedural: c. 50 BC / China
- Bug Eats Frog: c. 1972 / Virginia
- Polite Company: 1942 / Massachusetts
Chefs and Gourmands
- Ruth Reichl Finds the Foie Gras in Her Future: 1993 / New York City
- Principle Versus Inclination: 1724 / Block Island
- Procuring Impossibilities: 1838 / Auteuil
- Flavor is All: c. 29 BC / Rome
- Giant Sea Insects: 2003 / Rockland, ME
- Michel de Montaigne's Table Talk: 1588 / Aquitaine
- First Day of School: 1949 / Paris
- If Aristotle Had Cooked: c. 1690 / Mexico City
- Tobias Smollett Tastes the Sweet and Sour: 1771 / London
- George Orwell Can't Wash His Hands: 1929 / Paris
- Kitchen Appliances: c. 1490 / Milan
- Paradigm Shift: 1971 / Berkeley
- Playlist: 1944 / St. Louis
- Fit For a King: c. 1520 / Tenochtitlán
- Can't Say No: 397 / Hippo
- Alice B. Toklas Describes the Simple Art of Murder: 1954 / Paris
- What the Dead Ate: 1746 / Paris
- Abundant, Not Delicate: 1832 / United States
- An Omnivore’s Dilemma: c. 1795 / France
- Breakfast of Champions: 1979 / Texas
- Conspicuously Consuming Clergy: 1180 / Canterbury
- Mess Hall: c. 625 BC / Sparta
- Pure Lard is Expensive: 1974 / Kansas City, MO
- No Small Parts: 1923 / Missouri
- Michael Pollan Gives a History Lesson: 2006 / Berkeley
- Waste Not, Want Not: c. 1965 / Nigeria
- A Corrupted Appetite: c. 470 BC / Syracuse
- Willa Cather Satisfies a Craving: 1917 / Paris
- Form and Function: c. 1966 / Japan
- Sophisticated Stomach: 1825 / Paris
Dishes and Ingredients
- Anthony Bourdain Communes With an Ortolan: 2005 / New York City
- It Just Tastes Better: 1661 / London
- A Heavy Smell: c. 1858 / Paris
- After Satiety and Revulsion: 1930 / Heidelberg
- Acquired Tastes: c. 1030 / China
- To Preserve the Nation: 1729 / Dublin
- Upton Sinclair Tours the Factory: 1906 / Chicago
- None of the Above: 1944 / Leicestershire
- And the Snozberries Taste Like Snozberries: 1546 / Holland
- Culinary Tourism: 1930 / England
- No Seagull, Hold the Camel: c. 1250 BC / Mt. Sinai
- A Jewish Reformation: 1929 / Baltimore
- Wine List: 2011 / Los Angeles
- Tonight’s Moon, Tomorrow’s Hangover: c. 1680 / Edo
- Tea With Marcel Proust: c. 1910 / Paris
- Like a Mongol's Boots: c. 750 / China
- Taste of Knowledge: c. 3760 BC / Eden
- Civil Abstinence: 1854 / Walden
- Deadly Appetite: c. 1000 / Persia
- Hangover Cure: c. 1985 / El Paso
- The Death Cap: 54 / Rome
- Today’s Menu: 1749 / London
- Hold the Chicken: 1970 / Northern California
- A Preference for Pork: c. 180 / Rome
- National Cuisine: 1878 / Paris
- Ralph Ellison Breaks a Yam: c. 1930 / New York City
- Ode to a Beet: c. 1984 / Seattle
- An Exercise in Willpower: 362 / Phrygia
- Madhur Jaffrey Tracks the Tandoor: c. 1947 / Delhi
- Dog Eat Dog: 1777 / New Zealand
- Boiled Not Flayed: c. 1876 / Arabia
- M.F.K. Fisher on the Basics: 1949 / Los Angeles
Departments
Essays
- Pastoral Romance: by Brent Cunningham
- Balanced Diets: by Daniel Mason
- The Imperial Kitchen: by Jason Goodwin
- Death in the Pot: by Deborah Blum
Conversations
- Ovid & Les Murray: Nectar of the Gods
- Countess of Blessington & the Sedgwick Sisters: Thinning Out
- Porphyry & Ted Nugent: Kill It and Grill It
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