Machine generated contents note: 1.Nose Job: Tasting has little to do with taste -- 2.I'll Have the Putrescine: Your pet is not like you -- 3.Liver and Opinions: Why we eat what we eat and despise the rest -- 4.The Longest Meal: Can thorough chewing lower the national debt? -- 5.Hard to Stomach: The acid relationship of William Beaumont and Alexis St. Martin -- 6.Spit Gets a Polish: Someone ought to bottle the stuff -- 7.A Bolus of Cherries: Life at the oral processing lab -- 8.Big Gulp: How to survive being swallowed alive -- 9.Dinner's Revenge: Can the eaten eat back? -- 10.Stuffed: The science of eating yourself to death -- 11.Up Theirs: The alimentary canal as criminal accomplice -- 12.Inflammable You: Fun with hydrogen and methane -- 13.Dead Man's Bloat: And other diverting tales from the history of flatulence research -- 14.Smelling a Rat: Does noxious flatus do more than clear a room? -- 15.Eating Backward: Is the digestive tract a two-way street? -- Contents note continued: 16.I'm All Stopped Up: Elvis Presley's megacolon, and other ruminations on death by constipation -- 17.The Ick Factor: We can cure you, but there's just one thing.