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

Map

Food Chains

Tracing the world travels of tomato, pepper, and coffee.

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Miscellany

“As if I swallowed a baby,” said William Makepeace Thackeray about eating his first oyster.

What is food to one is to others bitter poison.

—Lucretius, 50 BC