Table of Contents

2011 Summer

Food

Introductory

• The Midas Touch: by Lewis H. Lapham

Voices in Time

Feast or Famine

• Paul Roberts on Big Box Food: 2008 / Washington, DC
• Bohumil Hrabal Serves Up the Roast Camel: c. 1939 / Prague
• Of Such a Dish as Powdered Wife: 1609 / Jamestown
• Hidden Sweetness: c. 1250 / Konya
• Moral Majority: 1972 / Andes Mountians
• Piggy Bank: c. 64 / Campania
• Second Helpings: 1837 / London
• Erasmus Schools All the Young Men: 1530 / Freiburg im Breisgau
• Harper Lee's Lesson in Good Manners: 1933 / Maycomb, AL
• Father Enki’s Amber Waves of Grain: c. 2200 BC / Sumer
• In the Grand Old Way: c. 1900 / Mbanta
• Peace Offering : c. 1200 BC / Troy
• Table Decoration: c. 1512 / Florence
• Turkeys Die Only Once: 1993 / New York City
• Bread is Gold: c. 1945 / Bergen-Belsen
• The Only God That Counts: c. 1970: Nigeria
• Let Them Eat Cake: 1869 / France
• Blood-Bought Luxuries: c. 1830 / Maryland
• Fullness Was All: c. 1918 / Sussex
• Barbara Demick Visits the Land of Scarcity: 1995 / Chongjin
• Icebox Note: 1934 / Rutherford, NJ
• Snobbish Comparisons: c. 125 / Rome
• Ravenous Jubilation: 1634 / New France
• Guest of Honor: c. 525 / Denmark
• Force-Feeding: 1910 / Liverpool
• Procedural: c. 50 BC / China
• Bug Eats Frog: c. 1972 / Virginia
• Polite Company: 1942 / Massachusetts

Chefs and Gourmands

• Ruth Reichl Finds the Foie Gras in Her Future: 1993 / New York City
• Principle Versus Inclination: 1724 / Block Island
• Procuring Impossibilities: 1838 / Auteuil
• Flavor is All: c. 29 BC / Rome
• Giant Sea Insects: 2003 / Rockland, ME
• Michel de Montaigne's Table Talk: 1588 / Aquitaine
• First Day of School: 1949 / Paris
• If Aristotle Had Cooked: c. 1690 / Mexico City
• Tobias Smollett Tastes the Sweet and Sour: 1771 / London
• George Orwell Can't Wash His Hands: 1929 / Paris
• Kitchen Appliances: c. 1490 / Milan
• Paradigm Shift: 1971 / Berkeley
• Playlist: 1944 / St. Louis
• Fit For a King: c. 1520 / Tenochtitlán
• Can't Say No: 397 / Hippo
• Alice B. Toklas Describes the Simple Art of Murder: 1954 / Paris
• What the Dead Ate: 1746 / Paris
• Abundant, Not Delicate: 1832 / United States
• An Omnivore’s Dilemma: c. 1795 / France
• Breakfast of Champions: 1979 / Texas
• Conspicuously Consuming Clergy: 1180 / Canterbury
• Mess Hall: c. 625 BC / Sparta
• Pure Lard is Expensive: 1974 / Kansas City, MO
• No Small Parts: 1923 / Missouri
• Michael Pollan Gives a History Lesson: 2006 / Berkeley
• Waste Not, Want Not: c. 1965 / Nigeria
• A Corrupted Appetite: c. 470 BC / Syracuse
• Willa Cather Satisfies a Craving: 1917 / Paris
• Form and Function: c. 1966 / Japan
• Sophisticated Stomach: 1825 / Paris

Dishes and Ingredients

• Anthony Bourdain Communes With an Ortolan: 2005 / New York City
• It Just Tastes Better: 1661 / London
• A Heavy Smell: c. 1858 / Paris
• After Satiety and Revulsion: 1930 / Heidelberg
• Acquired Tastes: c. 1030 / China
• To Preserve the Nation: 1729 / Dublin
• Upton Sinclair Tours the Factory: 1906 / Chicago
• None of the Above: 1944 / Leicestershire
• And the Snozberries Taste Like Snozberries: 1546 / Holland
• Culinary Tourism: 1930 / England
• No Seagull, Hold the Camel: c. 1250 BC / Mt. Sinai
• A Jewish Reformation: 1929 / Baltimore
• Wine List: 2011 / Los Angeles
• Tonight’s Moon, Tomorrow’s Hangover: c. 1680 / Edo
• Tea With Marcel Proust: c. 1910 / Paris
• Like a Mongol's Boots: c. 750 / China
• Taste of Knowledge: c. 3760 BC / Eden
• Civil Abstinence: 1854 / Walden
• Deadly Appetite: c. 1000 / Persia
• Hangover Cure: c. 1985 / El Paso
• The Death Cap: 54 / Rome
• Today’s Menu: 1749 / London
• Hold the Chicken: 1970 / Northern California
• A Preference for Pork: c. 180 / Rome
• National Cuisine: 1878 / Paris
• Ralph Ellison Breaks a Yam: c. 1930 / New York City
• Ode to a Beet: c. 1984 / Seattle
• An Exercise in Willpower: 362 / Phrygia
• Madhur Jaffrey Tracks the Tandoor: c. 1947 / Delhi
• Dog Eat Dog: 1777 / New Zealand
• Boiled Not Flayed: c. 1876 / Arabia
• M.F.K. Fisher on the Basics: 1949 / Los Angeles

Departments

Essays

• Pastoral Romance: by Brent Cunningham
• Balanced Diets: by Daniel Mason
• The Imperial Kitchen: by Jason Goodwin
• Death in the Pot: by Deborah Blum

Conversations

• Ovid & Les Murray: Nectar of the Gods
• Countess of Blessington & the Sedgwick Sisters: Thinning Out
• Porphyry & Ted Nugent: Kill It and Grill It

Miscellany

• Locusts, Cilantro, Elvis Presley: Findings From the Editors

Reconsiderations

• It’s What’s For Dinner : by Scott Korb

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