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Still Life, by Carstian Luyckx, c. 1640. Columbus Museum of Art.

Preamble

The Midas Touch

By Lewis H. Lapham

The times change, and with them what, where, and how people eat.

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Essay

The Imperial Kitchen

By Jason Goodwin

Ottoman cuisine developed over centuries as the imperial center of an empire of food.

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Essay

It’s What’s for Dinner

By Scott Korb

To be an ethical eater, one can no longer betray a deep ignorance about the workings of nature.

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Kitchen Scene, by Peter Wtewael, c. 1620. The Metropolitian Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1906.

Essay

Death in the Pot

By Deborah Blum

Before the regulation of the food industry, there was very little preventing us from eating poison.

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The Harvesters, by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1565. The Metropolitian Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1919.

Essay

Balanced Diets

By Daniel Mason

Pica is an unexplainable food curiosity—the overwhelming desire to eat the inedible.

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Essay

Pastoral Romance

By Brent Cunningham

The exalted status of the American farmer has long been removed from reality of feeding a nation.

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