ABSTRACT
Utopias' power is to open the imagination to something that is combinatorial, it is both more than the sum of its parts but also something one cannot necessarily say. Food utopias involve sticky knowledge that is learned through doing, whatever it is that one is doing. The chapters have covered but a small sample of what might be considered food utopias and represent our personal engagements with the world. Thus experimentation strongly reflects an element of Michael's approach, the attraction of the unique, or some might say quirky, in an ocean of sameness. Food utopias also reflect Paul's fascination with what one can learn from a small, yet persistent process of doing justice and community as embodied in the practice of Catholic Workers. And critique helps Chris wrestle with the realization that people use unfamiliar or different conceptions of "doing good" to support activities that we consider bad.
