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Volume 8, Issue 2

May 2008

ISSN 1529-3262

EISSN 1533-8622

In this Issue

borborygmus
orts and scantlings
feast for the eye
poem
culture
photographs
family history
american icon
Investigations
semantics
economics
visionaries
performance
Commentary
consumerism
chef's page
at the movies
Review Essays
Books in Review
lagniappe

borborygmus

Rumblings from the World of Food

orts and scantlings

Fight the Good Food Fight

mark morton

feast for the eye

Curiously Chocolate: April Banks

nicole j. caruth

poem

Reading Parker

wyn cooper

culture

The Food Music Pantheon: Louis, Louis, Louis, Fats, and Slim

roy blount, jr.

photographs

My Father's Kitchen, Tel Aviv

yossi gutmann

family history

Roadtrip to Chinatown: Tasting Your Heritage, One Bite at a Time

eve m. tai

american icon

Simple Meals with M.F.K. Fisher

joan reardon

Investigations

Terra Madre 2006: Political Theater and Ritual Rhetoric in the Slow Food Movement

adrian peace

A Menu and a Mystery: The Case of the 1834 Delmonico Bill of Fare

ellen f. steinberg, jack h. prost

Locavore Literature

susan wiggins

from the editor: Melting Pots and Rainbows

Contributors

semantics

Reading a Plate

nir dudek

economics

Economy, Gastronomy, and the Guilt of the Fancy Meal

benjamin aldes wurgaft

visionaries

Curating for the Community: Sigmund Balka at Krasdale Foods

sarah hack

performance

Ceci n'est pas un papier acadéémique

yael raviv

Commentary

Is the Phoenix Kosher??

allen s. weiss

consumerism

Chrissy Caviar

jim stark

chef's page

Biker Chef: The Red Lion Inn, Stockbridge, Massachusetts

elizabeth field

at the movies

Good Cob, Bad Cob

bonnie azab powell

Review Essays

The Maccheroni Eaters

jeremy parzen

Books in Review

Review: Good Bread Is Back: A Contemporary History of French Bread, the Way It Is Made, and the People Who Make It, by Steven Laurence Kaplan

Peter Reinhart

Review: Food and Cooking in Victorian England: A History, by Andrea Broomfield

Susan Zlotnick

Review: The English Breakfast: The Biography of a National Meal with Recipes, by Kaori O'Connor

Alison Ryley

Review: APICIUS: A Critical Edition with an Introduction and an English Translation of the Latin Recipe Text Apicius, by Christopher Grocock and Sally Grainger

Alexandra Grigorieva

Review: Dining Posture in Ancient Rome: Bodies, Values, and Status, by Matthew B. Roller

Carolyn Shank

Review: From Silver to Cocaine: Latin American Commodity Chains and the Building of the World Economy, 1500––2000, by Steven Topik, Carlos Marichal, and Zephyr Frank

Steve Striffler

Review: Trading Roles: Gender, Ethnicity, and the Urban Economy in Colonial Potosíí, by Jane E. Mangan

Clare A. Sammells

Review: Modern Japanese Cuisine: Food, Power and National Identity, by Katarzyna Cwiertka

Eric C. Rath

Review: Culinary Comedy in Medieval French Literature, by Sarah Gordon

Isabel K. Roche

Review: Nonna Genia's Classic Langhe Cookbook, by Luciano De Giacomi, Roberta Corradin, and Antonia Schlueter

Francesco Capello

Review: Spaghetti Western: How My Father Brought Italian Food to the West, by Maria Cioni

Kasey Wilson

Review: Gold Rush Grub: From Turpentine Stew to Hoochinoo, by Ann Chandonnet

Sandi L. Lyman

Review: Death in the Truffle Wood, by Pierre Magnan

Phyllis Richman

Review: Trail of Crumbs: Hunger, Love, and the Search for Home: A Memoir, by Kim Sunéée

Tim Morris

Review: American Cookery, by Laura Kalpakian

Josephine Woll

Review: I'll Drink to That: Beaujolais and the French Peasant Who Made It the World's Most Popular Wine, by Rudolph Chelminski

Tara Q. Thomas

Review: Food & Booze: A Tin House Literary Feast, by Michelle Wildgen and Nicole J. Georges

Meryl S. Rosofsky

Review: First Big Crush: The Down and Dirty on Making Great Wine……Down Under, by Eric Arnold

Noah Rothbaum

Review: The Joy of Drinking, by Barbara Holland

Cynthia Nims

Review: The Chocolate Tree: A Natural History of Cacao, by Allen M. Young

Ellen M. Schnepel, Ph.D.

Review: Cooking the Gullah Way, Morning, Noon, and Night, by Sallie Ann Robinson, Gloria J. Underwood, and Jessica B. Harris

Jennifer Judkins

Review: Moonshine! Recipes, Tall Tales, Drinking Songs, Historical Stuff, Knee-Slappers, How to Make It, How to Drink It, Pleasin' the Law, Recoverin' the Next Day, by Matthew B. Rowley

Greg Gould

lagniappe

Happy 100th, Mary Frances!!

emily matchar

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