This volume of essays examines the relationship between eating and crisis. The United States long-lasting economic and cultural hegemony raises a number of questions: Has America been literally and metaphorically eating, appropriating, exploiting, and molding the world in its own image, or has it been eaten, appropriated, and exploited as a (frequently criticized or disdained) source of ideas, ideology, and knowledge? What is the relation between the current ecological crisis and America s consumerist economy, with its practices of food production and consumption, and its use of natural...