The importance of food and feasting around the world / Helen R. Haines and Clare A. Sammells -- Boiled eggs with chicks inside, or what commensality means / Robert Ivar Lohmann -- A rat by any other name : conflicting definitions of "dinner" in Belize, Central America / Helen R. Haines -- The delicacy of raising and eating guinea pig / David John Goldstein -- Termites tell the tale : globalization of an indigenous food system among Abaluyia of Western Kenya / Maria G. Cattell -- Ode to a Chuño : learning to love freeze-dried potatoes in highland Bolivia / Clare A. Sammells -- Durian : the king of fruits or an acquired taste? / Maxine E. McBrinn -- MSG and sugar : dilemmas and tribulations of a "native" ethnographer / Lidia Marte -- Eating incorrectly in Japan / James J. Aimers -- No heads, no feet, no monkeys, no dogs : the evolution of personal food taboos / Miriam S. Chaiken -- Buona forchetta : overeating in Italy / Rachel Black -- "No thanks, I don't eat meat" : vegetarian adventures in beef-centric Argentina / Ariela Zycherman -- Eating with the Blackfeet : who's been eating whose food? / Susan L. Johnston -- Drinking Ethiopia / Ronald Reminick -- You are what you drink in Honduras / Joel Palka -- Epilogue : Edibles and ethnic boundaires, globalization and guinea pigs / Miriam S. Chaiken.