Contents
Introduction: No Eating in the Archive
1. Taste: Eating and Aesthetics in the Early United States
2. Appetite: Eating, Embodiment, and the Tasteful Subject
3. Satisfaction: Aesthetics, Speculation, and the Theory of Cookbooks
4. Imagination: Food, Fiction, and the Limits of Taste
5. Absence: Slavery and Silence in the Archive of Eating