Presents 33 essays from the 26th Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery, which took place at St Catherine's College, Oxford in September 2007. Contributors explore such dimensions as the moral economy of red meat in Australia, smell and morality in the dining environment, why not eat pets, bread in 19th-century America, food in the novels of Dickens, piscinau and the myth of Roman decadence at table, and cacao in Brazil or the history of a crime. There is no introduction or index. Distributed in North America by The David Brown Book Co. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)