Investigating bio food through people’s personal, bodily and everyday relation with it, I was able to understand as it exists in (daily) reality – as it really is – not just what people tell about it and what circulates about it in the discourse. This embodied,...
In my other blogs on bio food in Belgium, I have explored bio food through people’s personal and bodily relation with it. I have dealt with how people bodily relate to and experience this food, how its sociocultural aspects (symbolic incorporation) have to be seen...
In the previous blog, I discussed two of bio food’s three most salient features associated with bio – its naturalness and health benefits. Now it remains to analyse its third characteristic and that is its ethicality. Indeed, bio food is deemed ethical not only...
In order to not only understand bio food but also our complexity of food, food’s composition and origins, it is crucial to try distinguish between food’s ‘nature’ and ‘culture’. However, food is becoming more and more complex and increasingly more food cannot simply...
I argue that in bio food’s edible materiality lies its inherent value. Indeed, bio food consumers take a particular interest in this materiality (Roe 2006). Although ‘value’ is one of those abused terms, when basically anything can have a ‘value’, especially in...
The goal of this blog is to manifest that it is the quality of bio food’s edible materiality that makes bio food bio, gives it its inherent value, and fundamentally differentiates from non-bio food. Besides bio food’s edible and inedible materiality, I see everything...
Food incorporation, identification and classification are real processes, which engage our body as well as mind (self). They shape us, and give rise to experiences, which are bodily and lived. In the process of both symbolic and literal incorporation, actual food...
The sense of taste and taste have to be taken together in their differences in order to really understand the complexity of our bodily relation with food and see how culture, society, the self and the body are integrated. We cannot really understand and explain our...
To understand today’s complexity of food and human complicated relation with food, we need to start from human nature concerning food, that is, biologically determined mechanisms, tendencies and behaviours which determine our relation with food. Only then we can fully...
