ABSTRACT
Food fills us with contentedness, but also contentiousness. The more scholars fill up on the subject of food, the more we realize that there is a lot to digest as well as a lot of perpetual indigestion of enduring conflicts, both human and non-human. The phrase home economics are a lovely one, and are far more resonant of the broadness of vision and care that the term biological economies the author think wants to connote. For a home should be understood as human and non-human and immediately ecological, given that the root of ecology, ecos, means exactly that: home. Words and images like system, assemblage, and post-humanism are great for emphasizing cooperation and connection in a relational world that de-centers the self and the human. Capitalists and rationalists alike beware, for there is no way around it: Not everyone likes the same food.
