Christina Bartz is professor for television and digital media at the Institute of Media Studies at Universität Paderborn. She is working on the history of the computerization of the home and the interdependence between media and the domestic everyday life. Her research also focuses on the topics of participation and television.
Jens Ruchatz is a Professor of Media Studies at the Institute of Media Studies at Philipps-Universität Marburg. Apart from culinary media, his research interests include the history and theory of photography, media relations, illustrated periodicals, the interview and the history of celebrity.
Eva Wattolik is a Senior Lecturer in the field of Art History at the Department of Media Studies and Art History at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. Her research focuses on artistic and medial image-making strategies in the 19th and 20th centuries and their theoretical reflection.

Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
Food - Media - Senses 9
My Eye is a Mouth 39
The Restaurant as a Medium (Connect/Disconnect) 55
Once Upon a Taste in the East 67
Space Food in the Media 83
Gustatory Knowledge 105
Sense Makes Memory 123
Nicolaes Maes 141
The Recipe and Photography 159
Food and the Senses in Film 195
Picturing Food 209
Naturalness 229
Toward a Gastronomic Criticism 247
Threefold Documentation 267
Food in Jewish Exile in Shanghai 279
Eating with the Dead 289
Putrefaction 301
Authors 323