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Book SynopsisArgues for the existence of a philosophy of food
Trade Review"This is a surprisingly wonderful anthology that truly practices what it preaches. And what it preaches is that practice ... is more nourishing than preaching." - Hungry Mind Review "This is an innovative and extremely eclectic collection of thoughtful and philosophical writings about food ... "- Canadian Philosophical Reviews
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction: Deane W. Curtin and Lisa M. Heldke
Section One
Deane W. Curtin: Food/Body/Person
Denise Levertov: Matins (excerpt)
Plato: from PHAEDO
Susan Bordo: Anorexia Nervosa: Psychopathology as the Crystallization of Culture
Kim Chernin: Confessions of an Eater
Kelly Oliver: Nourishing the Speaking Subject: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Abominable Food and Women
Maria Lugones: Playfulness, World-Traveling, and Loving Perception
David J. Kalupahana: The Indian Background, The Buddha's Conception of Personhood
Anna S. Meigs: Food Rules and the Traditional Sexual Ideology
Nancy Willard: How to Stuff a Pepper
Section Two
Deane W. Curtin: Recipes for Values
Jean-Francois Revel: From Culture and Cuisine
Dogen: Fushuku-Hamop(Meal-time Regulations)
Sen-no-rikyu: Verses of Sen-No-Rikyu
Calvin Trillin: From American Fried: Adventures of a Happy Eater
Peter Singer: Becoming a Vegetarian
From the Rig Veda: The Two Full of Butter
From the Bible: Genesis 1-3
From the Bible: Leviticus 11:1-47
Section Three
Lisa M. Heldke: Foodmaking as a Thoughtful Practice
Plato: from Gorgias
Al Sicherman: The Perfect Pie
Patrick Suppes: From Probabilistic Metaphysics
Jean-Francois Revel: from Culture and Cuisine
Lisa M. Heldke: Recipes for Theory Making
Carol J. Adams: from The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory
Buffalo Bird Woman: from Buffalo Bird Woman's Garden
Dogen: Tenzo Kyokun (Instruction for the Tenzo)
Audre Lorde: from Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
Verta Mae Smart-Grosvenor: from Vibration Cooking: or The Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl
Section Four
Lisa M. Heldke: Food Politics, Political Food
Anne Buchanan: Myths About Hunger
Vandana Shiva: Development, Ecology, and Women
Bernice Johnson Reagon: Are My Hands Clean?
Joyce Carol Oates: Women Whose Lives Are Food, Men Whose Lives Are Money, American Independence
Jonathan Swift: A Modest Proposal
Wes Jackson: Meeting the Expectations of the Land
Diane Di Prima: Revolutionary Letter #42, Revolutionary Letter #55
Mary Moran: Thanksgiving Dinner During Pelting Season
Wendell Berry: The Pleasures of Eating
Index
