ABSTRACT
This chapter considers what happens to spaces and places when food is framed by entangled notions of security and care. It does this using the example of Fred and Ginger, an affluent, mixed-race couple from London who claim they care about the food they eat and use this caring to inform their consumption. One of the more profound shifts in contemporary food provision is consumers and producers variously seeking to reclaim food from agri-industrial capitalism. This shift has most typically been sited within a range of alternative food networks and initiatives that articulate an array of ethics surrounding consumption and production. The chapter focuses on the ways in which end-consumers employ geographical narratives, specifically discourses of place to secure their foods from the inequities and insecurities that characterise the agri-capitalist food system and ensure that their food supply is free from cares, worries and anxieties. Security implies a space free from care, worry or anxiety.
