Section 1. The body. 1. Gross negligence: on narraties of disgust in ferments and microbial foods / Maya Hey, Concordia University, Canada ; 2. What role does memory play in our engagement of dining out? / Charles Spence, University of Oxford, UK ; 3, A private snack of crackers and butter / Lisa Heldke, Gustavus Adolphus, USA ; 4. Are you going to eat that? Implicit influences of preferences and consumption / Leighann Chaffee, University of Washington Tacoma, USA ; 5. 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, Mexico -- Section 2. Family and community. 6. Brittle memories: sharing culinary expertise in an Italian family / Fabio Parasecoli, New York University, USA ; 7. The knife without a hand: ethnographic memoir through a goat not eaten / Samburu, Northern Kenya John Holtzman, Western Michigan University ; 8. Opulence and identity: menus of the Zodiac Club of New York, 1868-1915 / Paul Freedman, Yale University, USA; Graham Harding, Oxford University; Henry Voigt, Menu Collector -- Section 3: Cities. 9. Re-experiencing Rome / Andrew Donnelly, Loyola University Chicago, USA ; 10. The legend of Les Meres Lyonnaises: narrative, meaning and gender in the kitchen / Rachel Black, Connecticut College, USA ; 11. "The odor of broth": Food memory, and ethnography / Carole Counihan, Millersville University, USA ; 12. A tale of two cities / Greg de St Maurice, University of Toronto, Scarborough, Canada -- Section 4. Regional. 13. The little orange: the multiple making of place through an iconic Sicilian food / Amanda Hilton, University of Arizona, USA ; 14. Reverse engineering terroir: creating grounds for identity / Thomas Parker, Vassar College, USA ; 15. Memories and meaningfulness of apples in the midwestern imagination / Lucy Long, Bowling Green State University, USA -- Section 5. National. 16. Gheymeh Nazri: the Iranian meal of remembrance / Amir Sayadabdi, University of Canterbury, New Zealand ; 17. Tasting history: eating biscuits and imagining national identity / Lindsay Kelley, University of New South Wales, Australia ; 18. The taste of earth and homeland: remembering Palestine in 'Little Ramallah' / Jennifer Shutek, New York University, USA -- Section 6. Cross-regional. 19. Remembering, forgetting, and promoting the Mediterranean diet: exploring food memories of elderly women from Puglia, Southern Italy / Elisa Ascione, The Umbria Institute, Italy; Vincenza Gianfredi, University of Perugia, Italy; and Daniele Nucci, Veneto Institute of Oncology, Italy ; 20. Chile pasado: forgotten foods and cultural loss in the US-Mexico Borderlands / Lois Stanford, New Mexico State University, USA ; 21. The pharmacological table: environmental memory and the new Nordic cuisine / C. Parker Krieg, University of Helsinki, Finland -- Section 7. Beyond national and regional boundaries. 22. Sweet remembrances: candy as living repository of an imaginative memory / Iąki Martínez de Albeniz, University of the Basque Country, Spain ; 23. Re-membering value and excess: food disposal, recovery, identities and imagining in the US and Italy / Leda Cooks, University of Massachusetts, USA ; 24. Cooked in milk and full of froyo: food and eating in hell in the American imagination / Beth Forrest, Culinary Institute of America, USA -- Conclusion.