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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The Midas Touch

Lewis H. Lapham

Pastoral Romance

Brent Cunningham

Death in the Pot

Deborah Blum

Balanced Diets

Daniel Mason

The Imperial Kitchen

Jason Goodwin

It’s What’s for Dinner

Scott Korb

Map

Food Chains

Miscellany

Puréed applesauce boldly goes where no food has gone before.

The first airplane meals.

“I am the emperor, and I want dumplings.”

Calvin Coolidge settles a bet.

Hungry hungry Hemingway.

A history of American alcohol consumption.

Where the buffalo no longer roamed.

Profiles in presidential hunger.

Missing the forest for the caviar.

The Dickens diet for the depressed.

Julia Child has no use for cilantro.

Elvis and the Beatles enjoy a late night snack.

Aldous Huxley starts the myth of the vomitorium.

Cervantes discovers the best sauce in the world.

Mao’s Great Leap Forward leaves millions behind.

John Harvey Kellogg’s digestive “milk cure.”

Thackeray swallows a small baby.

The origin of the the candy cane.

Paul Newman has a lot of egg on his face.

Diogenes dreams of a cure for hunger.

Gilded grub: the Wall Street burger.

More Starbucks than one can stomach.

A cook claims the first Olympic victory.

Twain sizes up the specialities south of the Mason-Dixon line.

A feast fit for a king.

Scurvy spawns seal-clubbing.

The Columbian Exchange of vegetables.

Water? W.C. Fields never touches the stuff.

Voices In Time

The Only God That Counts

c. 1970 | Nigeria

Acquired Tastes

c. 1030 | China

If Aristotle Had Cooked

c. 1690 | Mexico City

Bread Is Gold

c. 1945 | Bergen-Belsen

Mess Hall

c. 625 BC | Sparta

Table Decoration

c. 1512 | Florence

Of Such a Dish as Powdered Wife

1609 | Jamestown

Civil Abstinence

1854 | Walden

Procuring Impossibilities

1838 | Auteuil

No Seagull, Hold the Camel

c. 1250 BC | Mt. Sinai

Conspicuously Consuming Clergy

1180 | Canterbury

None of the Above

1944 | Leicestershire

M.F.K. Fisher on the Basics

1949 | Los Angeles

Paradigm Shift

1971 | Berkeley

Kitchen Appliances

c. 1490 | Milan

Force-Feeding

1910 | Liverpool

Abundant, Not Delicate

1832 | United States

Hold the Chicken

1970 | Northern California

National Cuisine

1878 | Paris

Tonight’s Moon, Tomorrow’s Hangover

c. 1680 | Edo

Second Helpings

1837 | London

Tasting the Sweet and Sour

1771 | London

Waste Not, Want Not

c. 1965 | Nigeria

Dog Eat Dog

1777 | New Zealand

What the Dead Ate

1764 | Paris

Father Enki’s Amber Waves of Grain

c. 2200 BC | Sumer

No Small Parts

1923 | Missouri

An Exercise in Willpower

362 | Phrygia

Today’s Menu

1749 | London

Upton Sinclair Tours the Factory

1906 | Chicago

An Omnivore’s Dilemma

c. 1795 | France

It Just Tastes Better

1661 | London

Playlist

1944 | St. Louis

Principle Versus Inclination

1724 | Block Island

Taste of Knowledge

c. 3760 BC | Eden

Blood-Bought Luxuries

c. 1830 | Maryland

Guest of Honor

c. 525 | Denmark

Boiled Not Flayed

c. 1876 | Arabia

And the Snozzberries Taste Like Snozzberries

1546 | Holland

Procedural

c. 50 BC | China

Ravenous Jubilation

1634 | New France

Breakfast of Champions

1979 | Texas

Willa Cather Satisfies a Craving

1917 | Paris

The Death Cap

54 | Rome

Hangover Cure

c. 1985 | El Paso

Culinary Tourism

1930 | England

To Preserve the Nation

1729 | Dublin

Piggy Bank

c. 64 | Campania

Charts and Graphs

Food Fight

Mind Your Manners

The Things They Ate

Party Fouls

The Great Meal Theory of History

Melting Pots

Top Chefs

Meal Plans

Last Meals

Foreign Delicacies

Contributors

Conversations

Porphyry & Ted Nugent

Marguerite Gardiner & the Sedgwick Sisters

Ovid & Les Murray

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