1. Introduction: Re-thinking museums through food (and food through museums) / Nina Levent and Irina D. Mihalache -- Part One. Interdisciplinary perspectives on food in museums. 2. Anthropology on the menu : cultural perspectives on food and taste in museums / Christy Shields-Argelès ; 3. Curating for children : critical reflections on food, taste and food literacy in museums / Charlene D. Elliott ; 4. The neuroscience of flavor / Charles Spence ; 5. Food and objecthood : food, museums, and anti-theatricality / Edward Whittall ; 6. On the life of culinary images at the 2010 Shanghai World Expo / Van Troi Tran ; 7. Chefs as content creators : Arzak Kitchen and elBulli Foundation / Nina Levent -- Part Two. Collecting and exhibiting food. 8. Growing food history on a national stage : a case study from the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History / Paula J. Johnson ; 9. Tortillas, tacos, and berries : reflections on collecting Latino food history at the National Museum of American History / L. Stephen Velasquez ; 10. Telling cultural stories through food and drink at the Southern Food and Beverage Museum / Elizabeth M. Williams ; 11. Exhibiting the food system at the American Museum of Natural History in New York / Erin Betley and Eleanor Sterling -- Part Three. Food and audience engagement. 12. People's genius and creativity : Folklife Festival foodways at a living outdoor museum / James I. Deutsch ; 13. Feasting on history in Toronto's Fort York National Historic Site / Irina D. Mihalache in conversation with Elizabeth Baird, Rosemary Kovac, and Bridget Wranich ; 14. Eat Your History at Sydney Living Museums / Scott Hill and Jacqui Newling ; 15. Terroir Tapestries : an interactive consumption project / Jennifer Jaqueline Stratton and Ashley Rose Young -- Part Four. Eating in museums. 16. Local, national, and cosmopolitan : the rhetoric of the museum restaurant / Mark Clintberg ; 17. Cooking as art or the art of cooking / Marta Arzak ; 18. The art and science of plating / Charles Spence ; 19. A conversation with four pioneering museum chefs / Nina Levent with Josean Alija, Petter Nilsson, Joris Bijdendijk and Ali Loukzada ; 20. From Georgian dinners to dinner with Dickens : "Don't preserve the historic kitchen! Go into the historic kitchen!" / Irina D. Mihalache in conversation with Liz Driver, Director/Curator, Campbell House Museum ; 21. White onion, cod and green pepper sauce : a recipe from Josean Alija -- Part Five. Food and art. 22. Reflections on "Art and Appetite" : painting America's identity through food / Judith A. Barter ; 23. Sweet desserts and representation of desire / Nina Levent in conversation with artist Will Cotton ; 24. Intoxicating scenes : alcohol and art in the museum / Jim Drobnick ; 25. Tasting, feasting, connecting and providing as art experience / Sara Stern in conversation with artist Jennifer Rubell ; 26. Artists and farmers : food activism in urban and rural China / Michael Leung, Zhao Kunfang, and Jay Brown ; with introduction and conclusion by Nina Levent ; 27. Tasting power, tasting territory / Nat Muller in conversation with the art collective Cooking Sessions ; 28. Last course of the volume / Nina Levent and Irina D. Mihalache.