16 From Scratch

24 Food for Thought

26 Eat, Drink and Be Merry

32 Ghosts of Gastronomy

34 A Farm in the Family

2 Lift the Chorus
Letters from our readers

5 First Word
The editor's turn

6 On the Boulevard
KU & Alumni Association events

8 Jayhawk Walk
Gamers on scholarship, Marlins Man about town, hall-razors have their day and more

10 Hilltopics
News and notes: Bendapudi brings Jayhawk pride to provost office; Dacha gets much-needed TLC

14 Sports
Looked achieves KU first with Track triumph; spring game provides football preview.

42 Association News
Stalwart Jayhawks to receive Ellsworth Medallion; national Board welcomes new leadership.

48 Class Notes
Profiles of a craft brewer, a fruitful partnership, a fermentation crusader and more

68 In Memory
Deaths in the KU family

72 Rock Chalk Review
Small farmers in focus, Kansas City foodways and the food-environment connection

76 KU 150
Scenes from the sesquicentennial