The apparition of fat in Western nutritional theory / Ken Albala -- Gluttony : The fifth deadly sin / Joan P. Alcock -- The fats of the land : How Sumo wrestlers, Tempura and Viking became foodtainment in Japan / Michael Ashkenazi -- Fat in the Jewish diet / Josephine Bacon -- Fat as a preservative : Cheese in oil / Rosemary Barron and Geraldene Holt -- Fat and flavour / Fritz Bland and Len Fisher -- Fat words butter no parsnip : In memory of Jenny Macarthur / Andrew Dalby -- Waste not want not : The excesses of gluttony in the early to mid-Victorian period / Helen Day -- Jack Spratt's horror : Lardo rediscovered / Anne Dolamore -- Hunting for fat, searching for lean / Nichola Flectcher -- Polyunsaturated fats and cancer / Barry A. Groves -- Oil in Japanese cookery -- Comments on an essay by Naomichi Ishige / Richard Hosking -- Luscious lipids / Philip Iddison -- Celebrating fat / Manpreet Janeja -- Masculinity, potency and pig fat : The Kelabit of Sarawak / Monica Janowski -- "Even a greedy look is disagreeable" / Cathy K. Kaufman -- The fats of life / Sotiris Kitrilakis -- Fried in the heartland / Bruce Kraig -- Beyond food and fat, the coconut as the Filipino tree of life / Pia Lim-Castillo -- Eat fat and fast : The olive oil pastries of Crete / Diana Farr Louis -- A brief history of fat, fasting, and the balance diet : The Greek point of view / Linda Lyons -- Makris -- The pig in Irish cuisine past and present / Mairtin Mac Con Iomaire -- Fat in the Victorian kitchen : A medium for cooking, control, deviance and crime / Gerald mars and Valerie Mars -- Medieval Arab oils / Charles Perry -- Olive oil : Old world, new world -- A culinary and cultural bridge / Judy Ridgway -- The role and function of butter in the diet of the Monk and penitent in early medieval Ireland / Regina Sexton -- Cooking fats in Iran / Margaret Shaida -- A fat difference / Renee Valeri -- Vegetable oils : A brief survey / Harlan Walker -- The greasier the better : Dumba and its place in the Uzbek diet / Russell Zanca -- The succulence of kebab, the savour of rice / Sami Zubaida