Contents: Introduction: contours of eating: mapping the terrain of body/food encounters, Emma-Jayne Abbots and Anna Lavis; Part I Absences and Presences: How We (Do Not) Eat What (We Think) We Eat: Invisible foodscapes: into the blue, Kaori O’Connor; The substance of absence: exploring eating and anorexia, Anna Lavis; Home and heart, hand and eye: unseen links between pigmen and pigs in industrial farming, Kim Baker; Interlude: Eating practices and health behaviour, Simon Cohn. Part II Intimacies, Estrangements and Ambivalences: How Eating Comforts and Disquiets: Advancing critical dietetics: theorizing health at every size, Lucy Aphramor, Jennifer Brady and Jacqui Gingras; Eating and drinking kefraya: the karam in the vineyards, Elizabeth Saleh; Negotiating foreign bodies: migration, trust and the risky business of eating in highland Ecuador, Emma-Jayne Abbots; Interlude: Reflections on fraught food, Jon Holtzman. Part III Contradictions and Co-Existences: What We Should and Should Not Eat: Chewing on choice, Sally Brooks, Duika Burges Watson, Alizon Draper, Michael Goodman, Heidi Kvalvaag and Wendy Wills; ’It is the bacillus that makes our milk’: ethnocentric perceptions of yogurt in postsocialist Bulgaria, Maria Yatova; The transition to low carbon milk: dairy consumption and the changing politics of human-animal relations, Jim Ormond; Interlude: Reflections on the elusiveness of eating, Anne Murcott. Part IV Entanglements and Mobilizations: The Multiple Sites of Eating Encounters: Confessions of a vegan anthropologist: exploring the trans-biopolitics of eating in the field, Samantha Hurn; Metabolism as strategy: agency, evolution and biological hinterlands, Rachael Kendrick; Ingesting places: embodied geographies of coffee, Benjamin Coles; Complex carbohydrates: on the relevance of ethnography in nutrition education, Emily Yates-Doerr; Interlude: Entanglements: fish, guts, and bio-cultural sustainability, Elspeth Probyn; Index.