New essays from foodways archaeology related to cuisine in social, cultural, and environmental contexts.This collection of original essays is the first to cover recent trends in foodways archaeology in the Midwest using the concept of cuisine: the selection of food ingredients and methods of food preparation, cooking, and serving/consumption in relation to their social, cultural, and environmental contexts. This work span the Early Archaic (9000 B...

An American writer recalls his interlaced friendships with four Northern California painters at the turn of the millennium and beyond. The painters were Paul Wonner and Bill (William Theophilus) Brown, both of whom were associated with the Bay Area figurative movement of the 1950s, along with Jack Freeman of San Francisco and Sachal (Alexander Lioutikoff), born in Kiev and once renowned by the San Francisco Chronicle as "the Michelangelo of Highway 101."

Lhuzie Fénix drags you into a Marxist queer transfeminine retelling of Persephone's myths.Proserpina, the Flower Painter, is interrupted by the flowering of the asphodel — a drab, ugly thing that defiles her domain and which drags her down to the Underworld, a realm enemy to all that she is.To survive, she will have to seek allies among the dead: a warden of this prison, the grinning poison king, a woman that conned better gods than you and got awa...