Nose job : tasting has little to do with taste -- I'll have the putrescine : your pet is not like you -- Liver and opinions : why we eat what we eat and despise the rest -- The longest meal : can thorough chewing lower the national debt? -- Hard to stomach : the acid relationship of William Beaumont and Alexis St. Martin -- Spit gets a polish : someone ought to bottle the stuff -- A bolus of cherries : life at the oral processing lab -- Big gulp : how to survive being swallowed alive -- Dinner's revenge : can the eaten eat back? -- Stuffed : the science of eating yourself to death -- Up theirs : the alimentary canal as criminal accomplice -- Inflammable you : fun with hydrogen and methane -- Dead man's bloat : and other diverting tales from the history of flatulence research -- Smelling a rat : does noxious flatus do more than clear a room? -- Eating backward : is the digestive tract a two-way street? -- I'm all stopped up : Elvis Presley's megacolon, and other ruminations on death by constipation -- The ick factor : we can cure you, but there's just one thing.