FROM THE EDITOR
Editor’s Letter | Melissa L. Caldwell
2014 SOAS DISTINGUISHED LECTURE
Jerusalem on a Plate: Identity, Tradition, and Ownership | Yotam Ottolenghi
RESEARCH ESSAYS
Taste-Based Medicine | India Mandelkern
Pomegranate and the Mediation of Balance in Early Medicine | A.R. Ruis
Cultural Indigestion in Multicultural Australia: Fear of “Foreign” Foods in Australian Media | Lara Anderson and Heather Merle Benbow
How Not to Write About Africa: African Cuisines in Food Writing | Naa Baako Ako-Adjei
VISUAL ESSAY
Hard Labor in the Organic Potato Field | David Bacon
CREATIVE REFLECTIONS
The Thorniest Catch | John Grossmann
The Men Who Planted Trees: How the Truffle Saved Provence | Zachary Nowak
Madame Mushroom | Grace M. Cho
Picking Tomatoes at Midnight | Rebecca Dimyan
Shoot First, Make Breakfast Later | Jeff DeBellis
REVIEW ESSAY
Distinction and Dining | Gary Alan Fine
REVIEWS
San Francisco: A Food Biography By Erica J. Peters, Reviewed by Sarah Bakker Kellogg
Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing By Anya von Bremzen, Reviewed by Anton Masterovoy
Rice Talks: Food and Community in a Vietnamese Town By Nir Avieli, Reviewed by Sarah G. Grant
The Darjeeling Distinction: Labor and Justice on Fair-Trade Tea Plantations in India By Sarah Besky, Reviewed by Alexandra Hatzakis
Semiotics of Drink and Drinking By Paul Manning, Reviewed by Sierra Burnett Clark
Food and the Self: Consumption, Production and Material Culture By Isabelle de Solier, Reviewed by Kelila Jaffe
Food, Farms, and Solidarity: French Farmers Challenge Industrial Agriculture and Genetically Modified Crops By Chaia Heller, Reviewed by Hélène B. Ducros
Food Co-ops in America: Communities, Consumption, and Economic Democracy By Anne Meis Knupfer, Reviewed by Alison Hope Alkon
The Industrial Diet: The Degradation of Food and the Struggle for Healthy Eating By Anthony Winson, Reviewed by Robert Paarlberg
BOOKS RECEIVED