Consumer anxiety: towards a food democracy, Tim Lang; dining with death, Hugh Pennington; mad cows and Englishmen, Richard Lacey; setting food standards, Philip James; the "Yuk" factor, Derek Burke; cooking with kids, Prue Leith; banana bills, David Bederman; a vegetarian philosophy, Peter Singer; feeding the world, Tim Dyson; unequal health, Ann Ralph; waist not, want not, David Booth and Mary Douglas; the nation's diet, Ann Murcott; the prawn cocktail ritual, Alan Warde; ask the family, Roger Dickinson. Comfort food: interpreting starvation, Susie Orbach; kitchen revolution, Brian Harrison; savouring the antique, Emily Gowers; cooking the cannibals, William Arens; the evolution of appetites, Geoffrey Harrison; consuming nations, Shannon Peckham; feasting in the dark, Ian Christie; flesh sweeter than honey, Graham Ward; edible ecriture, Terry Eagleton.