ABSTRACT
Purchasing, eating, and sharing food involve different relations materialized in the items found in the household's food storage. These relationships expand beyond the individual household as food-related practices may occur between households. Hence, food storage practices offer an entry point to approach kinship and alternative economic arrangements and to explore how these relate to ideas of sustainability. Based on 139 self-reported accounts from an open-ended questionnaire on food storage practices in Sweden, this chapter focuses on how different foodways and relationships are made visible in narratives of domestic food storage practices. The aim is to explore how relationships unfold through food storage and consider how this may have implications for (un)sustainable food practices. The chapter reports on how storing food involves managing and upholding relations both within and outside the household, including non-commercial trajectories when food is gifted, exchanged, or temporarily stored elsewhere. More precisely, it shows how relational and material aspects of food storage may both enable and restrict the performance of practices commonly thought of as sustainable.
