ABSTRACT
Expressing and responding to aversions during family meals is a delicate issue, particularly for children, because their tastes can impact on the whole family. While children's tastes are a central resource in ‘doing family’, they require working up and upon, through the daily social and embodied practices of children and their parents. In this chapter, we use discursive psychology and ethnomethodology to provide an interactional perspective on taste. Using video-recorded mealtimes as data, we describe how children's tastes are produced and recognised, and how preferences and flavours emerge in the interplay between food, utensils, gestures, and talk.
