Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction by Alice Waters -- Preface -- Food Is... -- Eating My Words -- Cultures -- "If You Lack Turtles, Try Buffalo Hump" -- America the Bountiful -- True Grits -- When Corn Was King -- Corn Porn -- The Cowboy and the Machine -- Hamburgers -- All About Oysters -- Absolutely Smashing -- J-E-L-L-O -- 4-F Food -- The Artful Cafeteria -- Class Action -- Romancing the Stove -- People -- Elizabeth David 1914-1992 -- The Prime of M.F.K. Fisher -- Great American Taste: Claiborne, Child, Beard -- James Beard, American Icon -- The Greening of Alice Waters -- Grand Dame of Virginia Cooking: Edna Lewis -- Breaking Bread with Africa: Marcus Samuelsson -- The Count of Cuisine: Jean-Georges Vongerichten -- Places -- The Beautiful Birds of Bresse -- Rich, Robust, and Rewarding Normandy -- Umbrian Truffles and Game -- Festical of the Flowering Almond -- Tracking Cortes in Mexico -- Bahia Black and White -- Turning 60 at the Top of the World -- The Surviving Galápagos -- China Solo -- Family -- The Eyes Have It -- Thanaposis '83 -- My Daughter the Painter -- My Son the Bodybuilder -- Nostalgia: Salad Days -- Love and Mayonnaise -- Home Free: Of Keepsakes and God Pots -- Of Murdering Eels and Laundering Swine -- Earning Her Food -- Food Says -- A Is for Apple -- Acknowledgements.