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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Pastoral Romance

By Brent Cunningham

The exalted status of the American farmer has long been removed from reality of feeding a nation.

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Map

Food Chains

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

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Miscellany

At thirty-one ounces, the Trenta, a new drink size introduced by Starbucks in 2011, holds the same volume as the average capacity of the human stomach.

1546 | Holland

And the Snozzberries Taste Like Snozzberries

A mythical land of food, glorious food.More

c. 1030 | China

Acquired Tastes

A regional survey of Chinese delicacies.More

c. 50 BC | China

Procedural

Minding your manners at a Chinese dinner.More

Charts & Graphs

The Things They Ate

Hungry combatants.

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Photograph of African American abolitionist and U.S. diplomat Frederick Douglass.

Engraving of Roman poet Horace.

Black and white image of Greek biographer and writer Plutarch.

French author Émile Zola.

Sufi mystic and poet Rumi.

Welsh clergyman and historian Gerald of Wales.

British author Hilaire Belloc.

American professor and journalist Deborah Blum.

Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.

—Socrates, c. 430 BC

Irish author Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington.

Socialite, actress, model, and Warhol superstar Edie Sedgwick.

Marguerite Gardiner & the Sedgwick Sisters

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