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

About cilantro in a dish, Julia Child said, “I would pick it out if I saw it and throw it on the floor.”

We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink, for dining alone is leading the life of a lion or wolf. 

—Epicurus, c. 300 BC