...Jessica Gigot Sitting down at a table to a home-cooked, local meal gives me the same sensation as sitting down at my desk to write a new poem: a pause and then a surge of gratitude, followed by the slow digestion of truth, honesty, and love. As our food system evolves, we need to look at food...

...Bo McMillan “The apple pie was more than just ‘nutritious, man.’” Despite frequent critical fixation on the jazz aspects of Jack Kerouac's oeuvre, this reconsideration of the author's canon poses food as a central theme of the Duluoz Legend and analyzes the ways in which Kerouac thought and wrote...

... focus on one of these events, which attracted substantial attention in Israel and beyond: the breaking of the Guinness record at the Palestinian-Israeli village of Abu Gosh. In my analysis of this event I highlight two aspects of the “Hummus Wars” that are of specific interest to food scholars. First, I...

... destinations on this route include the port cities of Colombo, Malacca, and Singapore. The journey, however, is not predominantly one shaped by oceans, nations, or the urban fabric of cities. Instead, we enter the “private” spaces of domestic kitchens to record glimpses of “mixed” food practices...

...Tracy Bilsing The short fiction of modernist author Katherine Mansfield, in particular her work written during World War I, provides a distinctive glimpse into the civilian culture of war. Mansfield uses food imagery in her writing to accentuate a shifting sensibility and profoundly emotional...

...Joshua Freedman; Dan Jurafsky Our study uses the language of food to examine the representation of socioeconomic class identity in contemporary America by comparing the advertising language on expensive bags of potato chips with that on inexpensive chips. We find that the language on expensive chip...

...jude stewart The article compares recipes to make food with recipes to make color, specifically recipes to make natural dyes and paints before the era of synthetic industrial color. After reviewing conceptual definitions of recipes from food writers and scholars, the article discusses common...

...david goldstein This essay examines the existential philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas in relation to issues of food and eating. I argue that for Levinas, the act of eating is central to founding the ethical self, and that any understanding of Levinas's approach to embodiment must begin with what...

...a.f. robertson Food, essential to social interaction everywhere, has particular importance in the regeneration of this rural community in Catalonia. The misery of the Civil War in Spain was followed by three decades of rural depopulation and economic decline, but a gradual return to the countryside...

..., in the English countryside was frequently filled with weekend guests drawn from the international modern art world. For many of them she created ““food pictures,”” some inspired by their own works of art. She collected and invented recipes, often based on her extensive travels and sometimes as practical jokes...

...forka leypey mathew fomine Food taboos are observed in all traditional societies, especially in Cameroon where certain ethnic groups attach a lot of importance to them due to cultural reasons. Taboos related to culture are more subject to change (due to the level of literacy that prevails...

... comparison to South Pacific islanders and other European colonists, Graham imagines an ideal American-ness which is founded upon the imperial fantasy of Euro-American indigeneity and regulated through the daily consumption of wheat and other ““farinaceous”” foods. ©© 2009 BY THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY...

... similar dishes existing as early as 1883. Mr. Keller's connection with the Narragensett Pier and Mrs. Stevens are well documented. The Pier, however, was on the Rhode Island shore. Clams Casino is an excellent example of food lore. Dishes are not invented; they evolve. ©© 2009 BY THE REGENTS...

...lori waxman For a few years beginning in 1971, the restaurant FOOD served as a center of life for a diverse group of artists who called Manhattan's SoHo home. Founded by local artists Carol Goodden, Gordon Matta-Clark and Tina Girouard, FOOD's flexible working hours and creative, exotic, homemade...

... of expression that cannot help but fail to capture the full dimensions of our gastronomic experiences. French Laundry money food psychology restaurants economics | benjamin aldes wurgaft Economy, Gastronomy, and the Guilt of the Fancy Meal SPRING 2008 Sources of enjoyment may be accumulated and stored...

...gregory alexander donofrio The food system has, until recently, been conspicuously absent from city and regional planning practice, education, and research. Earlier in the twentieth century, food issues were a central concern of the nascent planning profession. Primary and archival source materials...

...marjorie ross Carlos Poveda's Domestic Landscapes are linked to a history of food and art that reaches back to Greco-Roman antiquity and becomes empowered with contemporary artists who sculpt or paint their works in edible materials to be devoured by spectators. Poveda's Landscapes, however, offer...