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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Food Chains

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

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Miscellany

The first Olympic champion on record, Coroebus, was a cook. He won the sprint in 776 BC.

The belly is the reason why man does not mistake himself for a god.

—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1886