By Florence Fabricant
Published: March 9, 2010, New York Times
“The Gastronomica Reader” (University of California Press, $39.95), an anthology of more than 40 essays from the thought-provoking food magazine of that name founded in 2001, edited by Darra Goldstein, is a volume to browse and absorb.
Some of the topics: Christian diets, food in wartime, cooking’s effect on human evolution, seafood and caviar in Muslim dietary laws in Iran, food as clothing, a Bengali cooking implement called a bonti, profiles of a rice farmer in the Carolinas, food choices in Zambia as they relate to genetic modification, and egg creams.
There is also poetry and art.
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