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This article originally appeared in Vandal before August 2013 and is being archived here at Aster(ix) for historical preservation.

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The Eyes Open to a Cry by Sasha Pimentel Chacón

Blood moves me from the bedroom to the bathroom, my body pulled away from the…

Guest Editor Ari Ariel (Food & Migration 3.1)

Food is an essential part of intellectual discourse. While as recently as ten years ago…

The Chicken and the Egg: Bird Flu in Bengal by Janam Mukherjee

One of the many brutal and dangerous realities of hunger is that its sufferers, the…

Holy City by Howie Good

1 We lived in a city famous for its ruins. The sky was the same…

Ethological Variations on Leftover Turkey and Other Matters: Singularity and Relationships in Cuisine as Morph Culture by Gerald Iguchi

Introduction: Turkey Pozole and Turkey Udon Not long after Thanksgiving, 2011, I saw a recipe for “Chipotle Turkey…

Confessions of a Lapsed Vegetarian by Lisa Brennan-Jobs

“Now that men are saturated and penetrated, as it were, with love of pleasure, it…

The Problem Was Oral by Stephanie Chan

His teeth had been gone for months. He’d been slurping jook. Which got tiring, which…

Sheila Maldonado, Pushcart Nominee

Read Sheila Maldonado’s “Future Tense (minor tribe: 2012)” 1. What about your work (creative, activist, etc)…

Fear of Flying by Syed Haider

NONFICTION Syed Ali Haider My full legal name, Syed Ali Razi Shamse Haider, raises eyebrows…

How To Cross A Border by Daniel Pena

Purchase a switchblade from the falluka in the black market that operates from the back…