1st Edition
Performing the Edible Sustenance, Sensation, and Sustainability
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
Shopping List
Chapter 1: Introduction
Kristin Hunt
Mise en place
Chapter 2: Four Gastro-biographies, Four Recipes and a Lonesome Banquet: Instructions for Cooking and Ingesting Two Philosophers and Two Political Leaders On Your Own
Athena Stourna, with gastro-biographical recipes by Hara Yiannakopoulou
Setting the Table
Chapter 3: Culinary Canopies and the Sanitized Street
Laurie Beth Clark and Michael Peterson
Chapter 4: “Edifying Punch and Brandy”: Performing Food and Digesting Identity in Early Modern English Encounters
Eunwoo Yoo
Amuse Bouche
Chapter 5: Piles of Rice
Robert Farid Karimi
Service
Chapter 6: Eating and Feeding Made Strange: Three Event Scores for the ICU
Gabrielle Sinclair Compton
Chapter 7: Communion of a Bowl of Seaweed Soup with Familiar Strangers: from Mukbang to Live Performance in the Miyeokguk Project
Jisun Myung
Sorbet
Chapter 8: Performing the drinkable: manifesting a wine’s terroir in performance
Krysta Dennis and Roanna Mitchell
Degustation
Chapter 9: Feeding/Eating the Other: A journey through Entrails
Thalia Hoffman
Chapter 10: Culinary Creativity: Personal Taste, Deconstruction, and Food Design
Paul Geary
Entremets
Chapter 11: Becoming with Wheat, and Other, More-Than-Human, Others
Amanda Couch
Digestion
Chapter 12: A Taste for Snow Eggs: Edible Reenactment with the Black Pot Supper Club
Elizabeth McQueen
Chapter 13: From Food Parcel Recipes to #Foodbankhauls: Performing Digital Culinary Activism in an Age of Food Crisis
Jenny Lawson
Chapter 14: The Kelp Cure: More-Than-Human Dramaturgy with Seaweeds
Sarah Blissett
Mignardises
Chapter 15: Delectable Viewing: Baking, Spectatorship, and Digital Theatre
Kelley Holley
Index
Biography
Kristin Hunt is Associate Professor and Assistant Director of Theatre in Arizona State University’s School of Music, Dance and Theatre. She is the author of Alimentary Performances: Mimesis, Theatricality, and Cuisine (Routledge, 2018) and Gut Knowledges: Culinary Performance and Activism in the Post-Truth Era (Routledge, 2023).
