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Introduction: On Sin, Sex, and Forbidden Food | |
Lust | |
First Bite | p. 7 |
Enveloped in Sweet Odor | p. 11 |
Likeness of a Roasted Crab | p. 16 |
Love Apple | p. 17 |
The Ketchup with a Thousand Faces | p. 22 |
Venomous Green | p. 25 |
Tulsi Ki Chai | p. 27 |
The Ecstasy of Being Eaten | p. 27 |
The King's Chocolate | p. 31 |
Tlaquetzalli | p. 37 |
Gay Gourmand | p. 38 |
Beijing Libido | p. 41 |
The Rainbow Egg | p. 43 |
Gluttony | |
Original Sin | p. 51 |
Porcus Troianu | p. 52 |
Ovis Apalis | p. 56 |
Cocktails with the Devil | p. 57 |
The Sultan's Date | p. 60 |
Angel Food Cake | p. 61 |
Saints and Supermodels | p. 63 |
Bitter Herbs | p. 67 |
Red Lady | p. 68 |
The Joy of Fat | p. 70 |
Mitterrand's Last Supper | p. 72 |
Pride | |
The Egotist at Dinner | p. 81 |
The Dirt Eaters | p. 83 |
A Dinner Party in Kishan Garhi | p. 85 |
The Last Supper | p. 89 |
Humble Pie | p. 91 |
A Prophetic Chicken | p. 100 |
Impure Indian Corn | p. 101 |
The Butterfly People | p. 105 |
Sky Blue Corn Flakes | p. 106 |
Ghost at the Dinner Table! | p. 107 |
King's Cake | p. 110 |
Sloth | |
The Job of Eating Well | p. 117 |
The Wonderful World of English Cookery | p. 119 |
Toast | p. 121 |
The Incredibly Sad Tale of Philippe the Shoemaker | p. 125 |
The Virgin's Nipples | p. 132 |
The Root of Laziness | p. 133 |
Potato Wars | p. 137 |
The Last Drop | p. 139 |
In the Green Hour | p. 143 |
Greed | |
The Greedy Diner | p. 151 |
Lazy Luscious Land | p. 152 |
The Magic Cannibal | p. 154 |
Smoked Green Makaku | p. 162 |
The Laughing Man | p. 164 |
Thou Shalt Not Eat Thy Mother | p. 172 |
Got Milk? | p. 175 |
American Pigs | p. 176 |
Blasphemy | |
The Sacred Act of Eating | p. 185 |
The Jewish Pig | p. 186 |
Dinner with the Spanish Inquisition | p. 190 |
The Kosher Question | p. 194 |
The Lawyer in Us | p. 196 |
Lent Egg | p. 198 |
A Well-Risen Messiah | p. 199 |
For What We Are About to Receive | p. 201 |
O, Dog | p. 202 |
Holy Cow | p. 206 |
You and Your Beautiful Hide | p. 211 |
Anger | |
The Civilized Sauce | p. 219 |
The Sadistic Chef | p. 221 |
Deep-Fried Murder | p. 223 |
Only if It Has a Face | p. 227 |
Hitler's Last Meal | p. 231 |
Little Nigoda | p. 233 |
The French Connection | p. 235 |
Vicious Little Red Man | p. 239 |
Insanity Popcorn | p. 241 |
Stinking Infidels | p. 242 |
Five Angry Vegetables | p. 246 |
Feasting to the Death | p. 247 |
The Eighth Sin: When Everything Is Allowed and Nothing Has Flavor | p. 255 |
Acknowledgments | p. 261 |
Endnotes | p. 263 |
Bibliography | p. 295 |
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