Food is...Eating my words -- CULTURES -- If you lack turtles try buffalo hump -- American the bountiful -- True grits -- When corn was king -- Corn porn -- The cowboy and the machine -- Hamburgers -- All about oysters -- Absolutely smashing -- J-E-L-L-O -- 4-F food -- The artful cafeteria -- Class action -- Romancing the stove -- PEOPLE -- Elizabeth David 1914-1992 -- The prime of M.F.K. Fisher -- Great American taste: Claiborne, Child, Beard -- James Beard, American icon -- The greening of Alice Waters -- Grand Dame of Virginia cooking: Edna Lewis -- Breaking bread with Africa: Marcus Samuelsson -- The Count of Cuisine: Jean-Georges Vongerichten -- PLACES -- The beautiful birds of Bresse -- Rich, robust, and rewarding Normandy -- Umbrian truffles and game -- Festival of the flowering almond -- Tracking Cortés in Mexico -- Bahia black and white -- Turning 60 at the top of the world -- The surviving Galápagos -- China solo -- FAMILY -- The eyes have it -- Thanatopsis '83 -- My daughter the painter -- My son the bodybuilder -- Nostalgia: salad days -- Love and mayonnaise -- Home free: of keepsakes and God pots -- On murdering eels and laundering swine -- Earning her food -- Food says...A is for apple.