Introduction / Robert C. Hauhart and Jeff Birkenstein
Significant food in mid-twentieth-century American realism / Robert C. Hauhart
Modernism, the grotesque body, and food in Anderson, Kafka, and Hemingway / Jeff Birkenstein and Ericka Birkenstein
Southern comfort in the age of Jim Crow : representing soul food in Ralph
Ellison's Juneteenth and beyond / Anton L. Smith
Wild or Wilder food : subsistence eating in American children's literature / Gregory Hartley
Kogi, Tía Perla, and KoBra : food trucks and identity in texts for young readers / Katy Lewis
Bad children and hungry women : food and "Hansel and Gretel" in the later work of Shirley Jackson / Shelley Ingram
The ingredients of an emblematic personal self : autobiographical memory and autonoetic consciousness in Diana Abu-Jaber's The language of baklava / Sanghamitra Dalal
Kitchen secrets : food stories and the politics of silence and voice in Ana Castillo's Black dove : Mamá, Mi'jo, and me / Méliné Kasparian-Le Fèvre
Food and the public/private body in Nella Larsen's Passing / Molly Mann
Queer hunger, eating, and feeding in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon / Carrie Helms Tippen
Appetites and identity : mixed-race identity construction through food and sex in Carmit Delman's "Footnote" / Rachel Fernandes
Recasting the culinary arts : cooking, ethnicity, and family in the queer novels of Bryan Washington and Bill Konigsberg / Edward A. Chamberlain
Cultural dichotomy crafted through food in Willa Cather's My Ántonia / Mary-Lynn Chambers
Katherine Anne Porter's "Flowering Judas" : Mexican politics, appetitive language, and alimentary religious symbolism / Heidi Oberholtzer Lee
Dial "Saucisse Minuit" for murder : Nero Wolfe and the art of detecting well / Rossitsa Terzieva-Artemis
"I can't work up an appetite just because you want me to" : (not) eating one's identity in J. D. Salinger's short stories / Serena Demichelis.