Introduction / Charles C. Ludington and Matthew Morse Booker --
Producing food. Savior or monster? The truth about genetically engineered agriculture / Margaret Mellon --
Born in the U.S.A.: the Americanness of industrial agriculture / Peter A. Coclanis --
Food activism : a critical history / Steve Striffler --
Choosing food. Can "taste" be separated from social class? / S. Margot Finn --
The standard of taste debate : how do we decide what tastes best? / Charles C. Ludington --
What does it mean to eat right? Nutrition, science, and society / Charlotte Biltekoff --
Regulating food. Who should be responsible for food safety? Oysters as a case study / Matthew Morse Booker --
U.S. farm and food subsidies : a short history of a long controversy / Sarah Ludington --
Gendering food. What should babies eat and whose business is it? / Amy Bentley --
Home, cooking : why gender matters to food politics / Tracey Deutsch --
Cooking and eating food. Is thinking critically about food essential to a good life? / Robert T. Valgenti --
A plea for culinary luddism / Ken Albala --
A plea for culinary modernism : why we should love fast, modern, processed food (with a new postscript) / Rachel Laudan.
