Figure 1: (from right to left) Democratic senators Patrick Leahy (VT), Robert Byrd (WV), and Ernest “Fritz” Hollings (SC) protest revised school lunch standards under the $1.5 billion USDA proposed budget cuts. The bad press and public outcry over the notion of ketchup counting as a vegetable pre... More

Figure 1: The retro bean can label photographs much better than the soup, but the flavor and aroma of the whole are more complex and satisfying than the sum of its simple parts . Photograph by Sayzie Koldys © 2020 More

Figure 1: Customer receiving goods from a paquetero in the Bronx, December 2016 . Film Still by David Schwittek © 2020 More

Figure 2: Paquetero demonstrates one popular item , pepita molida, ground pumpkin seeds . Film Still by David Schwittek © 2020 More

Figure 1: What the Trier Social Chef Test might look like . Illustration by Ben King © 2020 More

Figure 2: MasterChef judge Chef Gordon Ramsay’s judgment is sharp . Illustration by Ben King © 2020 More

Figure 1: L’huître noire Erika . Image Appears Courtesy of Alexandre and CéLine Couillon, Owners of La Marine More

Figure 2: Drawing by Samuel Garcia Perez. The drawing also appears in Latour’s Facing Gaia on page 18 . Image Appears Courtesy of the Artist More

Figure 3: Collage illustration by the author . More

Figure 1: Shaoguo, a biomass cook stove. Bricks cover the combustion chamber . Hetang and mo steam inside . Photograph by Erin Thomason © 2019 More

Figure 2: A surface prepared to roll wheat dough . Photograph by Erin Thomason © 2019 More

Figure 3: A typical kitchen in Jiatian village, this building was constructed in the mid-1990s . Photograph by Erin Thomason © 2018 More

Figure 4: Shaoguo is used to fry dishes for a reunion meal during the Lunar New Year . Photograph by Erin Thomason © 2019 More

Figure 5: A meal prepared for guests, including dishes with bowls of hetang. The mo is placed in a basket and covered by a towel . Photograph by Erin Thomason © 2019 More

Figure 6: A grandmother with her three grandchildren eating breakfast of hetang and mo accompanied by pickled garlic and fried winter melon, photographed by Jiatian village resident . Photograph by Ren Meiyun © 2020 More

Figure 7: A kitchen, newly constructed in 2017. These stoves use propane gas . Photograph by Erin Thomason © 2019 More

Figure 1: Window Visit – Styrofoam Cups. Photograph by Yara Clüver © 2020 More

Figure 2: Window Visit – Mamãe . Photograph by Yara Clüver © 2020 More

Figure 3: Window Visit – On the Phone. Photograph by Yara Clüver © 2020 More

Figure 4: Window Visit – Food and Meds. Photograph by Yara Clüver © 2020 More