ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the invisible foodscapes that are central to a critical understanding of why we eat, how we eat. Food is a uniquely problematic form of material culture ephemeral, elusive, always in the process of transformation. The chapter suggests that invisible foodscapes are as fundamental to human life as the visible ones that anthropologists usually study. Invisible foodscapes have tended to be overlooked and it is only through a systematic study of cultural blindness regarding certain foods that we can begin to engage with pressing issues of health, sustainability and food security. The chapter also focuses on the invisible Blue, the marine and coastal places that people do not see or care for, the sea foods that people choose not to eat yet which they may consume without realizing it and the ocean resources that people ignore when they focus on green or terrestrial products and issues.
