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Edible Landscapes: Song Dong’s Food Installations; A Fig by Any Other Name; Prescribing Pork in Israel; James Beard’s Early TV Work; A Journey into the Imaginary of Sicilian Pastry; The Sweetshops of Kolkata; Trends in Food Photography; Broccolini®: What’s in a Name?; An Interview with Renè Redzepi: Noma, Copenhagen; and more…

Mealtime at a Tibetan Monastery; On the Tomato Trail: In Search of Ancestral Roots; Veilleuse-théières: Form and Function in Nightlight Teapots; Upgrading the Local: Belgian Cuisine in Global Waves; The Tomato Queen of San Joaquin; Still Life on the Half-Shell; The Rogue Winemaker of Bully Hill; Alba, Boulder, Colorado; From Slaughter to Supper: The Politics and Pleasure of Meat; Blame It on the Grain; and more…

Toasting Ten Years of Gastronomica; Why Are There No Great Women Chefs?; Rites of Passage in Italy; Food Porn; Sweet Tooth Nation; Jean-Baptiste Labat and the Buccaneer Barbecue in Seventeenth-Century Martinique; Lucent Figs and Suave Veal Chops: Sylvia Plath and Food; Discovering Terroir in the World of Chocolate; Executive Pastry Chef, Washington, D.C.; Food Enigmas, Colonial and Postcolonial; and more…

My Journey Back to Korean Food; Salvador Dalí’s Lobsters: Feast, Phobia, and Freudian Slip; Did the Ancients Know the Artichoke?; Thanksgiving Dinner—Lightning Fast; Three Fateful Dinners Aboard the Titanic; Food Taboos in Precolonial and Contemporary Cameroon; Lessons from Slave Soldiers of World War II; This Ain’t Burger King; Interview with Rob Evans, Hugo’s, Portland, Maine; Five Ways of Looking at Globalization; and more…

The Water Gate Inn: Pennsylvania Dutch Cuisine Goes Mainstream; The Low Countries and the English Agricultural Revolution; Möhrenlaibchen: How the Carrot Got into the Cheese; A Lamentation for Shrimp Paste; Please Don’t Call It Pound Cake; Utica Greens: Central New York’s Italian-American Specialty; Savoy Cabbage, Capetown, South Africa; All the Fruit That’s Fit to Print; and more…

A Linguistic History of Things Other than Food that People Have Put into Their Mouths; The Secret Lives of Recipes; The Macaron and Madame Blanchez; Making Chipas in Paraguay; Food in Films: A Star Is Born; Vegetarianism in the Early Unity School of Christianity; Andy Warhol’s Production Kitchen; Marshmallow Fluff; The Contraceptive Café; On the Trail of Tilleul; China’s Dongbei Cuisine; Periodic Breakfast Table; and more…

Gimme Pizza; Jean Lowe’s Freudian Parslips; Cork; Masters of Disguise: French Cooks Between Art and Nature, 1651-1793; Chapulines and Food Choices in Rural Oaxaca; Jess Dobkin’s Lactation Station Breast Milk Bar; Illegal Cheese; Finding Pad Thai; I Cannubi; The Truth about Clams Casino; Uprooting Robert Parker; In Search of America’s Cuisine; and more…

Nina Katchadourian’s Genealogy of the Supermarket; British Catering in the 1970s; Climate Change and the Future of Taste; The Stray Shopping Cart Project; FOOD, A SoHo Restaurant; The Walpole Society Goes to Dinner; Truffle Wars; Bringing Up Baby (Carrots); Tennessee Waltz: A Culinary Misadventure from Memphis to Nashville; Medium-Size Me; Discovering Terroir in the Wines of Alsace; and more…

Banqueting at the Lord’s Table in Sixteenth-Century Venice; “Breaking Bread with a Spread” in a San Francisco County Jail; Grab and Go: A Restless Nation Tanks Up; The Taste of Fame: Chefs, Diners, Celebrity, Class; Cooking Up American Politics; Queen of de-Nile, Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Cairo; An Interview with Tony Minichiello, Vancouver; Go Fish; Culinary Whodunits; and more…

Fight the Good Food Fight; The Food Music Pantheon: Louis, Louis, Louis, Fats, and Slim; My Father’s Kitchen, Tel Aviv; Roadtrip to Chinatown: Tasting Your Heritage, One Bite at a Time; Simple Meals with M.F.K. Fisher; Economy, Gastronomy, and the Guilt of the Fancy Meal; Curating for the Community: Sigmund Balka at Krasdale Foods; Is the Phoenix Kosher?; Good Cob, Bad Cob; and more…