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. 3760 BC | Eden

Taste of Knowledge

Eve tries the forbidden fruit.More

1917 | Paris

Willa Cather Satisfies a Craving

Hunting for cheese in war-torn France.More

c. 1680 | Edo

Tonight’s Moon, Tomorrow’s Hangover

The morning after among the cherry blossoms.More

Charts & Graphs

Melting Pots

The evolution of “national” dishes.

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American author Alice B. Toklas.

Portrait bust of Greek historian Xenophon.

American rock musician Ted Nugent.

American journalist Barbara Demick.

English novelist and writer Frances Trollope.

Portrait bust of presumed author of the Iliad and the Odyssey Homer.

Indian actress and food writer Madhur Jaffrey.

Greek physician, writer, and philosopher Galen.

Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.

—Aldous Huxley, 1929

Australian poet and essayist Les Murray.

Ovid & Les Murray

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