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7Satires and Epistles by Horace: © Niall Rudd 1973, 1979, 1987, 1997, 2005.
36From The Physiology of Taste by Jean Brillat-Savarin, translated by M.F.K. Fisher, translation copyright © 1949 by the George Macy Companies, Inc., copyright renewed 1976 by The Heritage Press. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc. Any third party use of this material, outside of this publication, is prohibited. Interested parties must apply directly to Random House, Inc., for permission.
54Grand Dictionnaire de Cuisine by Alexandre Dumas: Translation by Roger Porter.
88“Just Enough Money” from Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris by A. J. Liebling. Copyright © 1959, 1962, 1981, 1986 by Estate of A. J. Liebling, used by permission of The Wylie Agency LLC.
93Reprinted with the permission of Scribner Publishing Group from The Gastronomical Me by M.F.K. Fisher. Copyright © 1943, 1954 by M.F.K. Fisher. All rights reserved./“The First Oyster” by M.F.K. Fisher (copyright © M F K Fisher, 1941). Reprinted by permission of A.M. Heath & Co Ltd.
100Excerpt from Pig Tails’n Breadfruit by Austin Clarke. Copyright © 1999 by Austin Clarke. Reprinted by permission of The New Press. www.thenewpress.com.
108Zami: A New Spelling of My Name by Audre Lorde: Reprinted by permission of the Charlotte Sheedy Literary Agency.
112From Feeding a Yen: Savoring Local Specialties, from Kansas City to Cuzco by Calvin Trillin, copyright © 2003 by Calvin Trillin. Used by permission of Random House, Inc. Any third party use of this material, outside of this publication, is prohibited. Interested parties must apply directly to Random House, Inc., for permission.
117“‘No Thank You, I Don’t Care for Artichokes,’ ” from Belongings by Sandra Gilbert. Copyright© 2005 by Sandra M. Gilbert. Used by permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. (UK CREDIT UNIQUE).
120From The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston, copyright © 1975, 1976 by Maxine Hong Kingston. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc. Any third party use of this material, outside of this publication, is prohibited. Interested parties must apply directly to Random House, Inc., for permission. UK CREDIT: Copyright © 1976 by Maxine Hong Kingston. Originally appeared in The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts. Reprinted by permission of the author and the Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency.
122“Sauerkraut and a Pig-Sticking” from Never Eat Your Heart Out by Judith Moore © 1998, reprinted by permission of Judith Moore and North Point Press.
129“The Bread” and “The Other Bread” from Crazy in the Kitchen by Louise DeSalvo, reprinted by permission of Louise DeSalvo and Bloomsbury Publishing.
135“Cooking the Kaddish” by Susan Gubar: Permission of author. Originally published in Critical Inquiry at: http://criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/cooking_the_kaddish.
142From Tender at the Bone by Ruth Reichl, copyright © 1998, 2010 by Ruth Reichl. Used by permission of Random House, Inc. Any third party use of this material, outside of this publication, is prohibited. Interested parties must apply directly to Random House, Inc., for permission. UK CREDIT UNIQUE.
151if I can Cook / you KNow God can by Ntozake Shange: USA CREDIT: Copyright © by Ntozake Shange. Reprinted by permission of Beacon Press, Boston. OUTSIDE NA CREDIT: Reprinted by the permission of Russell & Volkening as agents for the author. Copyright © 1998 by Ntozake Shange.
156From Colored People: A Memoir by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., copyright © 1994 by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc. Any third party use of this material, outside of this publication, is prohibited. Interested parties must apply directly to Random House, Inc., for permission.
160“Passover,” from Miriam’s Kitchen by Elizabeth Ehrlich, copyright © 1997 by Elizabeth Ehrlich. Used by permission of Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Group (USA) LLC.
168From The Language of Baklava by Diana Abu-Jaber, copyright © 2005 by Diana Abu-Jaber. Used by permission of Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc. Any third party use of this material, outside of this publication, is prohibited. Interested parties must apply directly to Random House, Inc., for permission.
176Bento Box in the Heartland: My Japanese Girlhood in Whitebread America by Linda Furiya © 2006. Reprinted with the permission of Seal Press, Perseus Books Group.
183“Indian Takeout” by Jhumpa Lahiri: Copyright 2000 by Jhumpa Lahiri, printed in Food & Wine Magazine.
189“Milk” and “Apple” from Tender Buttons by Gertrude Stein, © 1914. Used by permission of Random House.
192“This Is Just to Say” by William Carlos Williams, from The Collected Poems: Volume I, 1909–1939, copyright ©1938.
193From Selected Writings, Volume 2, 1927–1934 by Walter Benjamin: Directions Publishing Corp. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
200From My Life in France by Julia Child and with Alex Prud’homme, copyright © 2006 by the Julia Child Foundation for Gastronomy and the Culinary Arts and Alex Prud’homme. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc. Any third party use of this material, outside of this publication, is prohibited. Interested parties must apply directly to Random House, Inc., for permission.
204“On the Onion” from The Supper of the Lamb by Robert Farrar Capon. Copyright © 1967, 1969 by Robert Farrar Capon.
210“Oysters” from Opened Ground: Selected Poems 1966–1996 by Seamus Heaney. Copyright © 1998 by Seamus Heaney. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC.
211From Fruits & Vegetables by Erica Jong: © 1971, 1991, Erica Mann Jong, all rights reserved.
212From The Man Who Ate Everything by Jeffrey Steingarten, copyright © 1997 by Jeffrey Steingarten. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc. Any third party use of this material, outside of this publication, is prohibited. Interested parties must apply directly to Random House, Inc., for permission.
222From “Cocktail Hour at the Snake Blood Bar: On the Persistence of Taboo” from Not for Bread Alone: Writers on Food, Wine, and the Art of Eating by Francine Prose. Copyright © 1993 by Francine Prose. First appeared in Not for Bread Alone, ed. Dan Halpern (Ecco, 1993). Reprinted with permission of the Denise Shannon Literary Agency, Inc. All rights reserved.
229“Et Fugu, Brute? Food as Thrill-Seeking” from A Natural History of the Senses by Diane Ackerman, copyright © 1990 by Diane Ackerman. Used by permission of Random House, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House LLC. All rights reserved.
233“Introduction” from In Memory’s Kitchen: A Legacy from the Women of Terezin by Cara de Silva, reprinted by permission of Cara De Silva and Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
242“Capitalist Poem #5” by Campbell McGrath: from Capitalism, permission of the author.
243“The Last Meal” by Michael Paterniti: from Esquire, permission of the author.
248“Sea Urchin” by Chang-rae Lee: from The New Yorker, permission of the author.
251From Strange Stones by Peter Hessler: “Wild Flavor” by Peter Hessler. First published as “A Rat in My Soup” in The New Yorker. Copyright © 2012 by Peter Hessler. Reprinted by permission of the author.
259Excerpt from pp. 39–40 of The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book by Alice B. Toklas. Copyright 1954 by Alice B. Toklas. Copyright renewed 1982 by Edward M. Burns. Forward copyright © 1984 by M. F. K. Fisher. Publisher’s note copyright © 1984 by Simon Michael Bessie. Reprinted by permission of Harper-Collins Publishers.
263From The Civilizing Process by Norbert Elias: Reprinted by permission of Wiley UK.
267“Lines Written in the Fannie Farmer Cookbook” from The Complete Poems 1927–1979 by Elizabeth Bishop. Copyright © 1979, 1983 by Alice Helen Methfessel. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC.
268“Vegetables II” from What Love Comes To: New and Selected Poems. Copyright © 1975, 2008 by Ruth Stone. Reprinted with the permission of The Permissions Company, Inc., on behalf of Copper Canyon Press, www.coppercanyonpress.org.
269“Killing to Eat” from Rainbow Grocery by William Dickey, reprinted by permission of William Dickey and The Massachusetts Review.
271“Two Cook-Songs from the Planet Musaeus on the Same Subject, by Rival Poets” by Dorothy Gilbert, reprinted by permission of Dorothy Gilbert and Tattoo Highway journal.
273“In Search of Filth: A Day in the Life of a Restaurant Health Inspector” by Roger Porter: permission of the author.
276“How to Stuff a Pepper” from Carpenter in The Sun by Nancy Willard. Copyright © 1974 by Nancy Willard. Used by permission of the author in care of the Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency, Inc. (permissions @jvnla.com).
278“Cuisine Mecanique” by John Thorne © 1992 from Outlaw Cook by John Thorne and Matt Lewis Thorne, reprinted by permission of North Point Press, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC.
286“Spray-on sauces, caviar for astronauts and aerosols of wine” by Adrian Searle: in The Guardian. Copyright Guardian News & Media Ltd 2001.
290“When the Burning Begins” from Teahouse of the Almighty by Patricia Smith. Copyright © 2006 by Patricia Smith. Reprinted with the permission of The Permissions Company, Inc., on behalf of Coffee House Press, www.coffeehousepress.org.
293 Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain, © 2000, published by Ecco.
301From Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef by Gabrielle Hamilton, copyright © 2011 by Gabrielle Hamilton. Used by permission of Random House, Inc. Any third party use of this material, outside of this publication, is prohibited. Interested parties must apply directly to Random House, Inc., for permission.
305“Knife” from Consider the Fork by Bee Wilson, reprinted by permission of Bee Wilson and Basic Books.
321Almanach des gourmands by Murice Edmond Sailland (Curnonsky) (translator: Mark Kurlansky): Copyright Editions Albin Michel, Paris 1958.
324“Chopsticks” from Empire of Signs by Roland Barthes, translated by Richard Howard. Translation copyright © 1982 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc. Reprinted by permission of Hill & Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC.
326“Chopsticks” from The Rituals of Dinner: The Origins, Evolution, Eccentricities, and Meaning of Table Manners by Margaret Visser, copyright © 1991 by Margaret Visser. Used by permission of Grove/Atlantic, Inc. Any third party use of this material, outside of this publication, is prohibited. CANADA: Excerpt from The Rituals of Dinner © 1991 by Margaret Visser. Published by HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved.
331From Food Is Culture, by Massimo Montanari, translated by Albert Sonnenfeld. Copyright (date) Columbia University Press. Reprinted with permission of publisher.
336Near a Thousand Tables by Felipe Fernández-Armesto: Reprinted with the permission of Simon & Schuster Publishing Group from the Free Press edition of Near a Thousand Tables: A History of Food by Felipe Fernández-Armesto. Copyright © 2002 by Felipe Fernández-Armesto. All rights reserved.
346“Mama Menudo” from Memory Fever: A Journey beyond El Paso del Norte by Ray Gonzalez, reprinted by permission of Ray Gonzalez and Broken Moon Press.
349“Arabic Coffee” by Naomi Shihab Nye: Permission of author.
350“TV Dinners” by Bill Buford, originally published in The New Yorker. Copyright © 2006 by Bill Buford, used by permission of The Wylie Agency LLC.
357From Counter Intelligence: Where to Eat in the Real Los Angeles, © 2000 by Jonathan Gold. Reprinted by permission of St. Martin’s Press. All Rights Reserved.
359“The Emigree’s Feast” by Anya Von Bremzen: originally published in Saveur magazine. Copyright © 2008 Anya von Bremzen, used by permission of The Wylie Agency LLC.
365From Horsemen of the Esophagus: Competitive Eating and the Big Fat American Dream by Jason Fagone, copyright © 2006 by Jason Fagone. Used by permission of Crown Publishers, a division of Random House, Inc. Any third party use of this material, outside of this publication, is prohibited. Interested parties must apply directly to Random House, Inc., for permission.
371From The Futurist Cookbook by Filippo Tommaso Emilio Marinetti (translator Suzanne Brill): © 1991 by F.T. Marinetti. Used with permission of Chronicle Books LLC, San Francisco. Visit ChronicleBooks.com.
375From Remember to Remember, Vol. 2 of the Air-Conditioned Nightmare by Henry Miller: copyright ©1961 by Henry Miller. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
379 “Steak” from Turtle Island by Gary Snyder: copyright ©1974 by Gary Snyder. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
381 From What Are People For? by Wendell Berry: Copyright © 2010 by Wendell Berry. Reprinted by permission of Counterpoint.
385Fork It Over: The Intrepid Adventures of a Professional Eater by Alan Richman: Copyright © 2009 Condé Nast. From The New Yorker. All rights reserved.
392“A Plea for Culinary Modernism: Why We Should Love New, Fast, Processed Food” by Rachel Laudan: from Gastronomica (magazine), reprinted with permission of author and University of California Press.
400From “Fish, Flesh, and Foul: The Anti-Vegetarian Animus” by Stephen G. Kellman: permission of author.
408From Slow Food: The Case for Taste by Carlo Petrini. Folco Portinari: “Slow Food Manifesto” (Paris, 1989).
409Edit of “You Can’t Run Away on Harvest Day: September” from Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year in Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver, Steven Hopp, and Camille Kingsolver. Copyright © 2007 by Barbara Kingsolver, Steven L. Hopp, and Camille Kingsolver. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
415“The Feedlot: Making Meat” from The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan, copyright © 2006 by Michael Pollan. Used by permission of The Penguin Press, a division of Penguin Group (USA) LLC.
419Excerpt from Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser. Copyright © 2001 by Eric Schlosser. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
422Excerpted from Consider the Lobster and Other Essays by David Foster Wallace. Copyright © 2006 by David Foster Wallace. Reprinted by permission of Little, Brown and Company, New York, NY. All rights reserved.
431“The Natural Human Diet” by PETA: Text courtesy of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, www.peta.org.
439“Introduction: Eating My Words” by Betty Fussell, from A Slice of Life: Contemporary Writers on Food, edited by Bonnie Marranca. Introduction © 2003 by Betty Fussell. Preface and selection © 2003 by Bonnie Marranca. Published in 2003 by The Overlook Press, Peter Mayer Publishers, Inc., New York, NY. www.overlookpress.com. All rights reserved.
445“Edible Ecriture” by Terry Eagleton in Consuming Passions: Food in the Age of Anxiety, ed. Sian Griffiths and Jennifer Wallace. This article first appeared in Times Higher Education on October 27, 1997.
449“Food Porn” by Molly O’Neill: from Columbia Journalism Review, permission of author.
456“What’s the Recipe?: Our Hunger for Cookbooks” by Adam Gopnik: from The New Yorker, copyright © 2009 Condé Nast. All rights reserved.