Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures vii
4. Tables xi
5. Acknowledgments xiii
6. Contributors xvii
7. Introduction The Menial Art of Cooking 1
8. Chapter 1 Culinary Preferences 19
9. Chapter 2 Food Preparation, Social Context, and Ethnicity in a Prehistoric Mesopotamian Colony 47
10. Chapter 3 The Habitus of Cooking Practices at Neolithic Çatalhöyük 65
11. Chapter 4 Cooking Meat and Bones at Neolithic Çatalhöyük, Turkey 87
12. Chapter 5 From Grinding Corn to Dishing Out Money 99
13. Chapter 6 Cooking for Fame or Fortune 119
14. Chapter 7 Crafting Harappan Cuisine on the Saurashtran Frontier of the Indus Civilization 145
15. Chapter 8 Vale Boi 173
16. Chapter 9 “Hoe Cake and Pickerel” 201
17. Chapter 10 Great Transformations 231
18. Index 245