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

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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Map

Food Chains

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

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Miscellany

“I have made a bet, Mr. Coolidge, that I could get you to say more than two words,” a lady remarked to the president during a dinner. “You lose,” he responded.

c. 1250 BC | Mt. Sinai

No Seagull, Hold the Camel

Thus saith the Lord: eat this, not that.More

c. 525 | Denmark

Guest of Honor

Beowulf arrives at the mead hall.More

1838 | Auteuil

Procuring Impossibilities

Easy entertaining with the Count of Monte Cristo.More

Charts & Graphs

The Things They Ate

Hungry combatants.

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Henry David Thoreau

American journalist Hunter S. Thompson.

Indian actress and food writer Madhur Jaffrey.

English animal rights advocate Donald Watson.

Greek physician, writer, and philosopher Galen.

Irish author Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington.

Photograph of American writer Ralph Ellison.

‘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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