ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the politics of care in the work of rural farmers selling traditional food in a small Andean city in Ecuador. It discusses the embodied and multi-sensorial experiences of the producers in adapting traditional food of rural Andean livelihoods to fit the rhythms and regulations of selling food in the city and the burdens this implies. Using key ideas from feminist studies of care, it analyses interviews and observations conducted with farmers associated with an agroecological organisation in the northern Andean region of Ecuador. The chapter is narrated through the embodied experience of a farmer and her granddaughter preparing and selling Colada de Uchu Jaku, a traditional dish typical of the region. It uses the lenses of temperature to discuss both the joyful and painful experiences of their embodied experiences.
