1:1 Building the Ark / Carlo Petrini 1 --
1:2 Region Is Reason / Hermann Scheer 7 --
1:3 Insidious Distance / Stefanie Boge 12 --
1:4 In the American Ark: Wild Rice / Barbara Bowman, Chuck Lavine, Marcia Lavine 15 --
2 Tradition and Consumerism --
2:1 Slow Food versus McDonalds / George Ritzer 19 --
2:2 A Broken Heart / Tom Bruce-Gardyne 23 --
2:3 Unnatural Cooking / Massimo Montanari 30 --
3 Probably Good for You --
3:1 On Fats / Uda Pollmer 33 --
3:2 Nutraceutical Food / Marco Riva 38 --
3:3 Convict's Diet / Annie Hubert 44 --
3:4 Frying / Francoise Aubaile-Sallenave 50 --
4:1 Falafel / Philip Sinsheimer 55 --
4:2 Squid and Sweet Potatoes / Sylvie Guichard-Anguis 59 --
4:3 Tacos / Jorge De'Angeli 61 --
4:4 Khao Soy and Other Noodles / Annie Hubert 62 --
4:5 Without a Tablecloth: Tapas / Carlos Delgado 66 --
4:6 Fish & Chips / Lesley Chamberlain 69 --
4:7 Farinata / Maurizio Maggiani 72 --
4:8 Smoke Market / Bernard Rosenberger 74 --
4:9 Souvlaki / Dimitris Antonopoulos 76 --
5:1 Post-Industrial Pint / Michael Jackson 78 --
5:2 Drinkable Bread / Luigi Wanner 84 --
5:3 5,000 Varieties / Manfred Kriener 90 --
5:4 New Brews / Charlie Papazian 93 --
5:5 For Stout Lovers / Michael Jackson 95 --
6:1 Sunday Morning in Limogne / Annie Hubert 98 --
6:2 Value of Time / Gianni Vercellotti 102 --
6:3 Alkmaar: The Cheese Market / Grazia Solazzi 106 --
6:4 Native Chiles in Santa Fe / Deborah Madison 108 --
6:5 Market at Ulan Bator / Cinzia Scaffidi 111 --
7 Prohibitions and Prejudice --
7:1 Puritanical Proscriptions / Carol Nemeroff, Mary Davis 116 --
7:2 Vietnamese Snake Tavern / Barbara Santich 122 --
7:3 Latter-Day Religion: Vegetarianism / Lesley Chamberlain 125 --
7:4 Magic Bullets and Philosophers' Stones / Marco Riva 128 --
8:1 Bicycle or Airplane Chickens / Ettore Tibaldi 132 --
8:2 Wretched and the Noble / Michel Smith 136 --
8:3 Tandoori / Radha Kapoor-Sharma 141 --
8:4 Spoilt Chickens / Manfred Kriener 144 --
8:5 In the Streets, at Home / Nelly Krowolski 150 --
9:1 Lebanese Calendar / Aida Kanafani-Zahar 155 --
9:2 Balsamic Vinegar / Giorgio Triani 158 --
9:3 Pickles / Elizabeth Clift 162 --
9:4 Chutneys / Radha Kapoor-Sharma 166 --
10 Frankenfoods: Biotechnology --
10:1 Transgenesis / Arnaud Apoteker 170 --
10:2 Genetic Freedom / Vandana Shiva 175 --
10:3 Second Revolution / Manfred Kriener 179 --
10:4 Vine and the Engineer / Ivana Gribaudo 186 --
10:5 A Miracle? / Vandana Shiva 191 --
11 Cheese and Cheese Makers --
11:1 Typical? / Piero Sardo 198 --
11:2 Tumalo Tomme in Oregon / Sarah Heekin Redfield 200 --
11:3 "Toma": To Be or Not to Be / Vincenzo Gerbi 204 --
11:4 Farm with a View / Sarah Freeman 208 --
12:1 Conformity / Hugh Johnson 216 --
12:2 Secret of Diversity / Jancis Robinson 218 --
12:3 Origins of Champagne / Francois Bonal 222 --
12:4 Pest, Present and Future / Giovanni Ruffa 225 --
12:5 Revival Route / Michel Smith 228 --
12:6 Zinfandel / Bob Thompson 234 --
13:1 Coldwave / Otto Horse 236 --
13:2 Greeks Call It [characters not reproducible] / Dimitris Antonopoulos 237 --
13:3 My Father as a Tartar / Giampiero Rigosi 239 --
13:4 Raw Recipes: Marinated Sardines / Michel Smith 243 --
14:1 Meat on the Move / Manfred Kriener 249 --
14:2 Feathers and Plumes: Ostrich Farming / Emilio Senesi 255 --
14:3 Sins of the Flesh / Tom Bruce-Gardyne 261 --
14:4 SOS for Domestic Animals / Anna Mannucci 265 --
17:1 A Leftover Culture / Alberto Capatti 270 --
17:2 Rice and Fish Bones / Francoise Sabban 272 --
17:3 God in Crumbs / Dominique Predali 276 --
17:4 Italian Meatballs / Marco Guarnaschelli Gotti 279 --
17:5 Pebble Broth / Pier Luigi Manachini 283.