ABSTRACT
Food offers a useful insight into the world economy and politics, because it is central both to accumulation of capital, and to livelihood and community. Plants and animals are at once nourishment for human beings, and edible commodities. Land is at once a natural habitat of human communities and a resource for production. Diets are at once cuisines expressing cultural relations to nature, to families and communities, and to the body-and bundles of substitutable, variously priced nutrients offered to consumers.
