First courses: opening up new directions in food and film. "The average piece of junk is probably more meaningful than our criticism designating it so": reading (rhetorically) the restaurant review in Disney/Pixar's Ratatouille / Elisabeth H. Buck -- Table talk: queer revelations through meals in Filipino gay-male films / Mark Destephano, S.J -- "A nice cup of tea": tea culture in 1930s and 1940s British domestic documentary film / Lynn Hilditch -- Food and African American film. Eat the right thing: the urban food desert of Spike Lee's Bed-Stuy / Deborah Adelman -- "So good make you wanna slap yo mama": race, gender, and eating in the comedy film 'hood / Jessica Fanaselle and Joshua Culpepper -- From disgust to gustatory pleasure: the evolution of alimentary and moral repulsion in Steven Spielberg's The color purple / Lynn R. Johnson -- Feeding the family: new directions in food and non-American film. Taste, honor, and tradition in Il mafioso / Memory Holloway -- Food, family, and history in Japanese postwar film: four cases and a few comparisons / Charles W. Hayford -- Appetite and aroma: visual imagery and the perception of taste and smell in contemporary Korean film / Dotty Hamilton -- Small screens, big appetites: food and television. Dale Cooper and the mouth-feel of Twin peaks / Andrew Hageman -- Food and conversation in Sex and the city: fashion consumed, sex digested / Glenda Sacks -- Eating humans: new ideas on the oldest taboo. "Little shakin', little tenderizin', and down you go": Jaws and humanity's fear of finding itself on the menu / Mark R. Bousquet -- Sacrament to sacrilege: human flesh as sustenance in Alive and The road / Jennifer Dawes Adkison -- New Zealand lamb is people: bad taste, black sheep, and farming / Christian B. Long.
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