Editor's Acknowledgments -- Permissions -- Introduction : Why Does Food Matter? -- Part 1. Revaluing Food in a Global Economy -- Part 1 Introduction -- 1. "Willing (White) Workers on Organic Farms? Reflections on Volunteer Farm Labor and the Politics of Precarity" / Julie Guthman -- 2. "Grocery Auction Games : Distribution and Value in the Industrialized Food System" / Micah Marie Trapp -- 3. "The Labor of Terroir and the Terroir of Labor : Geographical Indication and Darjeeling Tea Plantations" / Sarah Besky -- 4. "Famine Talk" / Sandra Fahy -- 5. "Blaming the Consumer - Once Again : The Social and Material Contexts of Everyday Food Waste Practices in Some English Households" / David Evans -- 6. "Alimentary Dignity : Defining a Decent Meal in Post-Soviet Cuban Household Cooking" / Hanna Garth -- Part 2. The Power of Food : From Politics to Microbiopolitics -- Part 2 Introduction -- 7. "Power at the Table : Food Fights and Happy Meals" / Richard Wilk -- 8. "Postsocialist Spores : Disease, Bodies, and the State in the Republic of Georgia" / Elizabeth Cullen Dunn -- 9. "Everyday Approaches to Food Safety in Kunming" / Jakob A. Klein -- 10. "Digestive Politics in Russia : Feeling the Sensorium beyond the Palate" / Melissa L. Caldwell -- 11. "Resistance is Fertile!" / Anne Meneley -- Part 3. New Bodily Realities in a Techno-Science World -- Part 3 Introduction -- 12. "'Lose Like a Man' : Gender and the Constraints of Self-Making in Weight Watchers Online" / Emily Contois -- 13. "Everyday Translation : Health Practitioners' Perspectives on Obesity and Metabolic Disorders in Samoa" / Jessica Hardin -- 14. "Sensorial Pedagogies, Hungry Fat Cells and the Limits of Nutritional Health Education" / Emilia Sanabria -- 15. "The Environmental Account of Obesity : A Case for Feminist Skepticism" / Anna Kirkland -- 16. "Who Defines Babies' 'Needs'? : The Scientization of Baby Food in Indonesia" / Aya Hirata Kimura -- Part 4. More than Human, More than Food -- Part 4 Introduction -- 17. "Waste, Incorporated" / Chika Watanabe -- 18. "Arts of Inclusion, or How to Love a Mushroom" / Anna Tsing -- 19. "How to Taste Like a Cow : Cultivating Shared Sense in Wisconsin Dairy Worlds" / Katy Overstreet -- 20. "Spectacles and Tropes : Speculative Design and Contemporary Food Cultures" / Carl DiSalvo -- Index.