Introduction / Jason Scott-Warren and Andrew Zurcher -- Carving for knaves / Juliet Fleming -- Reading, writing and cooking / Deborah L. Krohn -- The kitchen in the printing house / Helen Smith -- 'To dream to eat Books': bibliophagy, bees and literary taste in early modern commonplace culture / Elizabeth L. Swann -- Skelton and the macaronic book / Raphael Lne -- Spenser's vomit: imitation, language, materiality / Andrew Zurcher -- The Diet of Worms / random cloud-chambers -- Eating the book, or why we need to digest what we read / Peter Stallybrass