Issue 20 | September 2018

A Special Feature on Food, Food Systems, and Agriculture.

• Introduction by Hélène Ducros

Research

• “Looking Backward, Moving Forward: Articulating a “Yes, BUT…!” Response to Lifestyle Veganism” by Richard White

• “Shoot Out in the O.K. Corral: Revisiting the Méline Tariff in an Age of Global Trade War” by Elizabeth Heath

• “Famine and Dearth in Medieval England” by Phillipp Schofield

• “Terroir, Wine Culture, and Globalization: What Does Terroir do to Wine?” by Marion Demossier

• “The Moral Economies of Agricultural Production and the Role of Property Relations” by Angela Cacciarru

• “Becoming an ‘Other Human:’ On the Role of Eating Together in Crisis Greece” by David Sutton

• “From Disturbing to Disrupting? Cultured Meat and Early 21st Century Veganism” by Erik Jönsson

• “Food Citizenship? Collective Food Procurement in European Cities” by Cristina Grasseni

Commentary

• “Baltic Agriculture: The Political Economy of Extremes” by Anu Mai Köll

• “Superfood or Dangerous Drug? Coffee, Tea, and Chocolate in the Late 17th Century” by Ken Albala

• “’Let Them Eat Cake:’ European Austerity, Food Insecurity, and Food Fraud” by Louise Manning

Visual Art

• “Peas in Queues,” an art series curated by Nicole Shea

Campus Spotlight: Middlebury College

• Syllabus: A Feast for the Eyes: Representations of Food in Cinema by Ioana Uricaru

• Syllabus: Sociology of Food by Erica Morrell

• Syllabus: Sociology of Knowledge and Food Systems by Erica Morrell

• Syllabus: Literary Feasts: Representations of Food in Modern Narrative by Sandra Carletti

• “Food Activism, the Sociology of Knowledge and First Foods: An Interview with Erica Morrell” by Hélène Ducros

Nonfiction

• Excerpt from American Fictionary by Dubravka Ugresic, translated from the Croatian by Celia Hawkesworth and Ellen Elias-Bursac

• Excerpt from The Condition of Secrecy by Inger Christensen, translated from the Danish by Susanna Nied

Fiction

• Excerpt from The Governesses by Anne Serre, translated from the French by Mark Hutchinson

• “The Cheese Story” by Olga Sezneva

Reviews

• The Culture of Food in England, 1200-1500, reviewed by Philip Slavin

• The Pyrenees in the Modern Era: Reinventions of a Landscape, 1775-2012, reviewed by David Messenger

• Wine and Place: A Terroir Reader, reviewed by Elizabeth Carter

• My Life as a Spy: Investigations in a Secret Police File, reviewed by Sabrina Papazian

• War, Public Opinion and Policy in Britain, France and the Netherlands, 1785-1815, reviewed by Annie Jourdan

• Women’s Networks in Medieval France: Gender and Community in Montpellier, reviewed by Catherine Leglu

• Turkish Guest Workers in Germany: Hidden Lives and Contested Borders 1960s to 1980s, reviewed by Brittany Lehman

Interviews

• “Everyone Eats: An Interview with Marion Nestle” by Hélène Ducros

• “Food as a Physical, Sensory, and Social Act: An Interview with Nicolas Godinot” by Hélène Ducros

• “A Conversation About Urban Agriculture” by Baptiste Grard and Christine Aubry

Editor’s Pick

• Heidegger and the Jews: The Black Notebooks by Donatella Di Cesare

• Food & Nutrition: What Everyone Needs to Know by P.K. Newby

• Parliamentary Institutions in Regional and International Governance Functions and Powers by Andrea Cofelice

• Mass Political Culture Under Stalinism: Popular Discussion of the Soviet Constitution of 1936 by Olga Velikanova

• The EU after Brexit: Institutional and Policy Implications by Francis B Jacobs