Food in Memory and Imagination

Beth M. Forrest is Professor of Liberal Arts at the Culinary Institute of America, USA and President of the Association for the Study of Food and Society. Greg de St. Maurice is Assistant Professor at Keio University, Japan and Vice President of the Association for the Study of Food and Society.

• Table of ContentsList of FiguresList of Contributors Acknowledgments IntroductionPart I: The Body and Individual1. A Private Snack of Crackers and Butter, Lisa Heldke, Gustavus Adolphus, USA2. Fermentation and Delicious / Disgusting Narratives, Maya Hey, Concordia University, Canada3. How Does Memory Impact Food Choice and Preference? The Role of Implicit and Imperfect Processes in Research on Food Attitudes, Leighann Chaffee, University of Washington Tacoma, USA4. Food Memoirs and Coming-of-Age Stories: Memory and Maternal Kitchens in Gabrielle Hamilton's Blood, Bones & Butter, Julieta Flores Jurado, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico5. What Role Does Memory Play in Our Enjoyment of Meals?, Charles Spence, University of Oxford, UKPart II: Family and Community6. Brittle Memories: Sharing Culinary Expertise in an Italian Family, Fabio Parasecoli, New York University, USA7. Menus of the Zodiac Club of New York, 1868-1915, Paul Freedman, Yale University, USA; Graham Harding, Oxford University; Henry Voigt, Menu Collector8. Food Memory and Food Imagination at Auschwitz, Lisa Pine, London South Bank University, UK 9. The Knife Without a Hand: Ethnographic Memoir Through a Goat not Eaten, Samburu, Northern Kenya, John Holtzman, Western Michigan UniversityPart III: Cities10. The Legend of Les Mères Lyonnaises: Narrative, Meaning and Gender in the Kitchen, Rachel Black, Connecticut College, USA11. Memories, Meals, and Shame in Florence, Italy, Carole Counihan, Millersville University, USAPart IV: Regional12. The Little Orange: The Multiple Making of Place through an Iconic Sicilian Food, Amanda Hilton, University of Arizona, USA13. Memories and Meaningfulness of Apples in the Midwestern Imagination, Lucy Long, Bowling Green State University, USA14. Reverse Engineering Terroir: Creating Grounds for Identity, Thomas Parker, Vassar College, USAPart V: National15. The Local and the National in Japan’s Documentary Food Show Kuishinbo! Banzai, Greg de St. Maurice, Keio University, Japan16. Food, Rituals, and the Selective Remembrance of (an Idealized) Home in Diaspora: Iranians of New Zealand, Amir Sayadabdi, University of Canterbury, New Zealand17. The Taste of Earth and Homeland: Remembering Palestine in “Little Ramallah”, Jennifer Shutek, New York University, USA18. Tasting History: Eating Biscuits and Imagining National Identity, Lindsay Kelley, University of New South Wales, AustraliaPart VI: Cross-Regional19. The Next Apicius, Andrew Donnelly, Loyola University Chicago, USA20. Remembering and Promoting Grandma's Cooking through the Mediterranean Diet, Apulia, Southern Italy, Elisa Ascione, The Umbra Institute, Italy; Vincenza Gianfredi, University of Perugia, Italy; and Daniele Nucci, Veneto Institute of Oncology, Italy21. The Pharmacological Table: Environmental Memory in New Nordic Cuisine, C. Parker Krieg, University of Helsinki, Finland22. Re-membering Value and Excess: Food Disposal, Recovery, Identities and Imagining in the US and Italy, Leda Cooks, University of Massachusetts, USAPart VII: Beyond National and Regional Boundaries23. Sweet Disturbances: Candy as Speculative Imagination for a Socially Grounded Memory, Iñaki Martínez de Albeniz, University of the Basque Country, Spain24. Eating in the Time of the Dead: Farming, Foraging, and Food Insecurity in Zombie Cinema, Taylor Reid, Culinary Institute of America, and Maureen Costura, Culinary Institute of America25. Cooked in Milk and Full of Froyo: Food and Eating in Hell in the American Imagination, Beth Forrest, Culinary Institute of America, USABibliographyIndex

This volume is a rare treat, bringing together leading scholars and new voices from around the world to explore how food evokes pasts and futures, from the most intimate and personal to the most encompassing identities. It will become a standard reference in the field for the foreseeable future.