Taste, Waste and the New Materiality of Food

Anthropocentric thinking produces fractured ecological perspectives that can perpetuate destructive, wasteful behaviours. Learning to recognize the entangled nature of our everyday relationships with food can encourage ethical ecological thinking and lay the foundations for more sustainable lifestyles. This book analyses ethnographic data gathered from participants in Alternative Food Networks from farmers' markets to community gardens, agricultural shows and food redistribution services.

Bethaney Turner is Assistant Professor in International Studies at the University of Canberra, Australia

1. Introduction 2. An Appetiser: Eating, being and playing with convivial dignity 3. Introducing Taste 4. Growing a Taste for Togetherness 5. Taste In Shopping 6. Taste in Competition 7. Introducing Waste 8. Waste in the Home 9. Composting in the Home 10. Ugly Food and Food Waste Redistribution 11. New Grammars for the Anthropocene: Playful tinkering with convivial dignity