Introduction: Reading Food Chapter One: Jell-O: Mortality and Malleability in the Kitchen Chapter Two: The Spice of Life: Colonizing Globe and Body Chapter Three: Who's Got Milk?: Breastfeeding and the Dairy Chapter Four: The Fork: Emily Post Comes to Dinner Chapter Five: The Pig: Dirt and Religion in the Household Chapter Six: Carving: Blood in the Kitchen Chapter Seven: Showing Off: Feasting and Hospitality Chapter Eight: Just a Spoonful of Sugar Chapter Nine: Syrup: The Bliss of Keeping and Forgetting Chapter Ten: Coffee Breaks Chapter Eleven: Is Meat What's for Dinner? Chapter Twelve: 'You say Tomato': Ethnicity, Class and Food Afterward: Celebrity Recipes, the Gourmet, and Appetite.