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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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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The Imperial Kitchen

By Jason Goodwin

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

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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.

1771 | London

Tasting the Sweet and Sour

Tobias Smollett is definitely tired of London.More

1724 | Block Island

Principle Versus Inclination

Ben Franklin rationalizes his seafood dinner.More

1854 | Walden

Civil Abstinence

To fish or not to fish, that is the question.More

Charts & Graphs

Last Meals

Last Meals

Match the person with their last meal.

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Color photograph of American writer Annie Dillard.

Photograph of American editor Brent Cunningham.

Poet, essayist, and editor Ray Gonzalez.

Portrait bust of Greek historian Xenophon.

English novelist and writer Frances Trollope.

Calvin Trillin standing in front of a refrigerator in a black and white photograph

American poet Allen Ginsberg.

‘Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860

Australian poet and essayist Les Murray.

Ovid & Les Murray

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