Critically reflecting on the interplays between food and care, this multidisciplinary volume asks 'why do individuals, institutions and agencies care about what other people eat?' It explores how acts of caring about food and eating shape and intervene in individual bodies as well as being enacted in and through those bodies. Careful Eating asks what 'eating' and 'caring' are, what relationships they create and rupture, and how their interplay is experienced in myriad spaces of everyday life.

Contents: Introduction: reflecting on the embodied intersections of eating and caring, Anna Lavis, Emma-Jayne Abbots and Luci Attala. Part I Eating to Care: Proximities and Productions: Multiculturalism as work: the emotional labour of ethnic food tour guides, Rick Flowers and Elaine Swan; Is sharing caring? Social media and discourses of healthful eating, Signe Rousseau; Caring about careless eating: class politics, governance and the production of otherness in Highland Ecuador, Emma-Jayne Abbots. Part II Embodied Encounters between Eating and Caring: Careful starving: reflections on (not) eating, caring and anorexia, Anna Lavis; The sweetness of care: biographies, bodies and place, Tanya Zivkovic, Megan Warin, Vivienne Moore, Paul Ward and Michelle Jones; Food, weight and care in the consultation, Antje Lindenmeyer. Part III Caring to Eat: Distances and (Dis)Connects: Placing security: food, geographical knowledge(s) and the reproduction of place(less-ness), Benjamin Coles; Configuring relations of care in an online consumer protection organization, Karin Eli, Amy K. McLennan and Tanja Schneider; Children's engagements with food: an embodied politics of care through school meals, Monica Truninger and Jose Teixeira; Afterword: the everyday biopolitics of care-full eating, Michael K. Goodman. Index.