1. Food as Memory and Identity
The gastronomical me, an excerpt / M.F.K. Fisher
Four menus / Sheila Squillante
What was served / Douglas Bauer
The God of small feasts / Shoba Narayan
Home run : my journey back to Korean food / Roy Ahn
Tasteless / David Sedaris
The pleasures of eating / Wendell Berry
Seafarming at the end of the world / Peter Meehan
Sowing dissent / Joel Salatin (interview withTracy Frisch)
The meaning of local / Todd Kliman
2000+ reasons why GMOs are safe to eat and environmentally sustainable / Jon Entine and JoAnna Wendel
The threats from genetically modified foods / Robin Mather
Considering the lobster / David Foster Wallace
Can't stomach it : how Michael Pollan et al. made me want to eat Cheetos / Julie Guthman
Suckin' the chicken bone dry : African American women, history, and food culture / Psyche Williams-Forson
The Rise of yuppie coffees and the reimagination of class in the United States / William Roseberry
Men eat meat, Women eat chocolate : how food gets gendered / Riddhi Shah
The moral crusade against foodies / B.R. Myers
Don't blame the eater / David Zinczenko
Our national eating disorder / Michael Pollan
The food desert / Jennifer Wehunt
The disappearance of hunger in America / Patricia Allen
How to address obesity in a fat-phobic society / Courtney E. Martin
Snacks for a fat planet / John Seabrook
School food, public policy, and strategies for change / Marion Nestle
5. Food and American Culture
Good food everywhere / Brett Martin
A Native American Thanksgiving / Beverly Cox and Clara Sue Kidwell
We got our way of cooking things : women, food, and preservation of cultural identity among the Gullah / Josephine Beoku-Betts
A confederacy of sauces / Jack Hitt
There's no such thing as too much barbecue / Jason Sheehan
Montgomery officials try eating for $5 a day / Bill Turque
Lawmakers' headline-grabbing food stamp diet / Jim Geraghty
6. Food Travel and Worldviews
Let's eat Chinese! Reflections on cultural food colonialism / Lisa Heldke
The rooster's head in the soup / Tim Cahill
Everything comes from the sea / Coleman Andrews
Dead heads / Anthony Bourdain
Hungry planet : what the world eats / Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio
The food at our feet / Jane Kramer
"The last days of the Czars," from Mastering the art of Soviet cooking / Anya Von Bremzen
Appendix A: Epilogue: Cooking and culture
Appendix B: Researching and writing about food / Barbara Rockenbach and Aaron Ritzenberg.
