ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the geographical implications that surround ingestion and interrogates what it means to eat or drink place. It argues that to drink coffee is to drink a place and its geographies is not as straightforward as it seems. The chapter employs topography, an ethnographically-inspired form of place-writing, to trace out inter-relations. In this process a kind of topology of food and drink emerges. The chapter draws on some of the theoretical concerns that characterize multi-sited ethnography as well as some of its methodological and discursive devices. Particularly, this chapter takes the form of an essay and uses it to follow the roaming and meanders implicit in any consideration of topology. Likewise, methodologically at least, the chapter borrows the language of Actor-network theory (ANT), particularly as it has been reclaimed by Latour's recent reflections. This chapter talks about the assemblages of tracing out and of making connections and the ideas are presented for examining or otherwise interrogating places and place-making.
