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Cover
Title
Contents
Foreword by Ruth Reichl
Introduction: A Toast to Taste
I•– Food Writing Through History: From Biblical Taboos to Sinclair’s Stockyards
Introduction
The Old Testament (c. 538–332 BCE)
Leviticus 11
Horace (65–8 BCE)
from Epistle 5, To Torquatus: A Cheerful Invitation to Dinner
Petronius (27–66)
from The Satyricon: Trimalchio’s Feast
Plutarch (46–120)
from Moralia: On Eating Meat
François Rabelais (1494–1553)
from Gargantua and Pantagruel: On the Gastrolaters
Ben Jonson (1572–1637)
Inviting a Friend to Supper
Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)
from A Modest Proposal
Joel Barlow (1754–1812)
from The Hasty Pudding: On the American Kitchen Muse, Canto II
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755–1826)
from The Physiology of Taste: On Taste
Charles Lamb (1775–1834)
from A Dissertation upon Roast Pig
George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788–1824)
from Don Juan: The Death of Pedrillo
John Keats (1795–1821)
La Belle Dame sans Merci
Alexandre Dumas (1802–1870)
from The Great Dictionary of Cuisine: The Onion
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
from Wild Fruits: Watermelons
Frederick Douglass (1818–1895)
from My Bondage and My Freedom: Ash Cake and the Rich Man’s Table
Herman Melville (1819–1891)
from Moby-Dick: The Whale as a Dish
Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888)
from Transcendental Wild Oats
Anton Chekhov (1860–1904)
Oysters
Marcel Proust (1871–1922)
from Remembrance of Things Past: On the Madeleine
Upton Sinclair (1878–1968)
from The Jungle: A Visit to the Slaughterhouse
II•– At the Family Hearth: Memory, Identity, Ethnicity
Introduction
A. J. Liebling (1904–1963)
from Between Meals: Just Enough Money
M.F.K. Fisher (1908–1992)
from The Gastronomical Me: The First Oyster
Austin Clarke (1934–)
from Pig Tails ’n Breadfruit: Souse, but no Black Pudding
Audre Lorde (1934–1992)
from Zami: Spices
Calvin Trillin (1935–)
from Feeding a Yen: A Magic Bagel
Sandra M. Gilbert (1936–)
“No Thank You, I Don’t Care for Artichokes,”
Maxine Hong Kingston (1940–)
from The Woman Warrior: Mother’s Cooking
Judith Moore (1940–2006)
from Never Eat Your Heart Out: Sauerkraut and a Pig-Sticking
Louise DeSalvo (1942–)
from Crazy in the Kitchen: The Bread / The Other Bread
Susan Gubar (1944–)
from Cooking the Kaddish
Ruth Reichl (1948–)
from Tender at the Bone: The Queen of Mold
Ntozake Shange (1948–)
from if I can Cook/ you KNow God can: What’d You People Call That?
Henry Louis Gates Jr. (1950–)
from Colored People: Wet Dogs and White People
Elizabeth Ehrlich (1954–)
from Miriam’s Kitchen: Passover
Diana Abu-Jaber (1960–)
from The Language of Baklava: A House and a Yard
Linda Furiya (1966–)
from Bento Box in the Heartland: Swallowing Fish Bones
Jhumpa Lahiri (1967–)
Indian Takeout
III•– Hunger Games: The Delight and Dread of Eating
Introduction
Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
from Tender Buttons: Milk / Apple
Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
The Emperor of Ice-Cream
William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)
This Is Just To Say
Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)
from Eating: Fresh Figs / Borscht / Pranzo Caprese
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)
When You Camp Out, Do It Right
Julia Child (1912–2004)
from My Life in France: Sole Meunière
Robert Farrar Capon (1925–2013)
from The Supper of the Lamb: On the Onion
Seamus Heaney (1939–2013)
Oysters
Erica Jong (1942–)
from Fruits & Vegetables: “I Am Thinking of the Onion”
Jeffrey Steingarten (1942–)
from The Man Who Ate Everything: My Food Phobias
Francine Prose (1947–)
from Cocktail Hour at the Snake Blood Bar: On the Persistence of Taboo
Diane Ackerman (1948–)
from A Natural History of the Senses: Et Fugu, Brute?
Cara de Silva (1953–)
from In Memory’s Kitchen: Introduction / Wilhelmina Pätcher, Cold Stuffed Eggs Pätcher
Campbell McGrath (1962–)
Capitalist Poem #5
Michael Paterniti (1964–)
from The Last Meal
Chang-rae Lee (1965–)
Sea Urchin
Peter Hessler (1969–)
from A Rat in My Soup
IV•– Kitchen Practices: Chefs, Cooks, and Tools of the Trade
Introduction
Alice B. Toklas (1877–1967)
from The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book: Murder in the Kitchen
Norbert Elias (1897–1990)
from The Civilizing Process: On the Use of the Fork at Table
Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)
Lines Written in the Fannie Farmer Cookbook
Ruth Stone (1915–2011)
Vegetables II
William Dickey (1928–1994)
Killing to Eat
Dorothy Gilbert (1936–)
Two Cook-Songs from the Planet Musaeus on the Same Subject, by Rival Poets
Roger J. Porter (1936–)
In Search of Filth: A Day in the Life of a Restaurant Health Inspector
Nancy Willard (1936–)
How to Stuff a Pepper
John Thorne (1943–)
from The Outlaw Cook: Cuisine Mécanique
Adrian Searle (1953–)
A Visit to Ferran Adrià’s Workshop
Patricia Smith (1955–)
When the Burning Begins
Anthony Bourdain (1956–)
from Kitchen Confidential: From Our Kitchen to Your Table
Gabrielle Hamilton (1965–)
from Blood, Bones & Butter: The Brunch Rush
Bee Wilson (1974–)
from Consider the Fork: Knife
V•– Cultural Tales and Tables: Our Diverse Gastronomic Ways
Introduction
Curnonsky (Maurice Edmond Sailland) (1872–1956)
from The Almanach of Gourmets: Gastronomy and Politics
Roland Barthes (1915–1980)
from Empire of Signs: Chopsticks
Margaret Visser (1940–)
from The Rituals of Dinner: Chopsticks
Massimo Montanari (1949–)
from Food Is Culture: Taste Is a Cultural Product
Felipe Fernández-Armesto (1950–)
from Near a Thousand Tables: The Logic of Cannibalism
Ray Gonzalez (1952–)
from Memory Fever: Mama Menudo
Naomi Shihab Nye (1952–)
Arabic Coffee
Bill Buford (1954–)
from TV Dinners
Jonathan Gold (1955–)
from Counter Intelligence: Hot Dog on a Stick
Anya von Bremzen (1963–)
The Émigrée’s Feast
Jason Fagone (1979–)
from Horsemen of the Esophagus: The Passion of the Toast
VI•– Food Politics: Disputes Over the Menu
Introduction
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1876–1944)
from The Futurist Cookbook: The Manifesto of Futurist Cooking
Henry Miller (1891–1980)
from Remember to Remember: The Staff of Life
Gary Snyder (1930–)
Steak
Wendell Berry (1934–)
from What Are People For?: The Pleasures of Eating
Alan Richman (1944–)
from Fork It Over: My Beef with Vegans
Rachel Laudan (1944–)
from A Plea for Culinary Modernism
Steven G. Kellman (1947–)
from Fish, Flesh, and Foul: The Anti-Vegetarian Animus
Carlo Petrini (1949–)
Slow Food Manifesto
Barbara Kingsolver (1955–)
from Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: You Can’t Run Away on Harvest Day
Michael Pollan (1955–)
from The Omnivore’s Dilemma: Cattle Metropolis
Eric Schlosser (1959–)
from Fast Food Nation: The Worst
David Foster Wallace (1962–2008)
from Consider the Lobster
PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals)
The Natural Human Diet
VII•– Reading Food Writing: The Language of Taste
Introduction
Betty Fussell (1927–)
Eating My Words
Terry Eagleton (1943–)
Edible Écriture
Molly O’Neill (1952–)
from Food Porn
Adam Gopnik (1956–)
from What’s the Recipe?: Our Hunger for Cookbooks
Permissions
Acknowledgments
Also by Sandra M. Gilbert
Copyright
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