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Table of Contents

  1. Featured Contributors
  3. pp. 7-10
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The Editorial Table

  1. Food in Our Time
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  1. An Ocean Apart
  2. Erik Vance, Dominic Bracco II, Prime
  3. pp. 40-55
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  1. Repast: An Oratorio for Booker Wright
  2. Kevin Young, Melanie Dunea
  3. pp. 62-81
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  1. Sugar Days: Working the Harvest, Then Moving On
  2. Sierra Crane-Murdoch
  3. pp. 82-91
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  1. A Long Night’s Journey Into Spring: Savoring Thorrablot, Iceland’s Rancid Winter Feast
  2. Colleen Kinder
  3. pp. 92-105
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Amateur Hour

  1. One Born Every Minute: William Helfand on Two Centuries of Quackery
  2. Jack Hitt
  3. pp. 12-18
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Talisman

  1. Literary Tastes: What a Writer Craves
  2. Amy Bloom
  3. pp. 19-21
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Mapping

  1. Food Diplomacy
  2. Megan Suau, Alice Donaldson
  3. pp. 22-23
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Dispatch

  1. Ice Cream, Socialized: Waiting for Sweet Rapture at Cuba’s Coppelia
  2. Jason Motlagh, Lisette Poole
  3. pp. 24-35
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  1. Napa Valley and the Jeffersonian Ideal
  2. James Conaway, Peter Menzel
  3. pp. 178-189
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Poetry

  1. Where Honey Comes From
  2. Maggie Smith
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  1. Bananas, and: Observations From a Hillside Stairway on the Day of Atonement, Just Before My Wife and Daughters Break Their Fast, and: Journal of Dr. Beaurieux
  2. Brooks Haxton
  3. pp. 37-39
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  1. Hour of the Wolf, and: Hunter’s Moon
  2. Ansel Elkins
  3. pp. 122-124
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  1. The Other Side, and: Near the Source of Love, and: Elegy
  2. Crystal Williams
  3. pp. 125-129
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  1. Fingerprints, and: At the Winery
  2. Linda Pastan
  3. pp. 175-176
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  1. The Bishop’s Supper
  2. Todd Portnowitz
  3. p. 177
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  1. In the Book
  2. Michael Bazzett
  3. pp. 204-205
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  1. The Jacob Lawrence Ekphrasis: Frederick Douglass Series
  2. F. Douglas Brown
  3. pp. 206-209
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Essays

  1. The Meringue War: Claiming Culinary Turf on Instagram
  2. Lauren Markham
  3. pp. 56-61
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  1. A Square Meal: Postcards of Food From Africa and the Diaspora
  2. Jessica B. Harris
  3. pp. 196-203
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Photo Essay

  1. American Wedding: On the happiest day of a lifetime, appetites rule.
  2. Paul Reyes, Bill McCullough
  3. pp. 106-121
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Memoirs

  1. Crave: Eating and the Pleasure of Denial
  2. Pamela Erens
  3. pp. 130-137
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  1. Dosa: An Elegy for South Indian Food
  2. Siva Vaidhyanathan
  3. pp. 190-195
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Fiction

  1. I Was a Revolutionary
  2. Andrew Malan Milward
  3. pp. 138-149
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  1. River Blindness
  2. Sarah Frisch
  3. pp. 150-160
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  1. Tonight We Are Kings
  2. Ross McMeekin
  3. pp. 161-166
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  1. The Dark
  2. Deborah Willis
  3. pp. 167-174
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Recent Books

  1. Forced Feeding: The Torture of Keeping Detainees Alive
  2. Scott Korb
  3. pp. 210-217
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  1. Inside Big Ag: On the Dilemma of the Meat Industry
  2. James McWilliams
  3. pp. 218-222
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Fine Distinctions

  1. Jelly vs. Jam
  2. Gregory McNamee
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  1. From the VQR Vault: Appetite & Hunger
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  1. Carl Sandburg Letter to VQR Editor, 1928
  3. p. 225
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