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Preface -- Introduction: the practice of the meal / David Marshall, Benedetta Cappellini and Elizabeth Parsons -- Acquisition -- Authentic food and the double nature of branding / Søren Askegaard, Dorthe Brogård Kristensen and Sofia Ulver-Sneistrup -- The supermarket revisited: families shopping food / Malene Gram -- Working your way down: re-balancing Bourdieu's capitals in times of need / Benedetta Cappellini, Alessandra Marilli and Elizabeth Parsons -- The multi-cultural food market: grocery stores approaching foreign-born consumers in Sweden / Karin M. Ekström -- Appropriation -- Appropriation / Alice Julier -- Appropriating bimby on the internet: perspectives on technology mediated meals by a virtual brand community / Monica Truninger -- The digital virtual dimension of the meal / Janice Denegri-Knott and Rebecca Jenkins -- Fraught contexts and mediated culinary practices: ontological practices and politics / Paul Hewer Part III: Appreciation -- Consuming the family and the meal: representations of the family meal in women's magazines over 60 years / David Marshall, Teresa Davis, Margaret Hogg, Tanja Schneider and Alan Petersen -- From harmony to disruption and inability: on the embodiment of mothering and its consumption / Susanna Molander -- The intersection of family dinners and high school schedules in urban China / Ann Veeck, Hongyan Yu, and Fang (Grace) Yu -- Meal deviations: children's food socialisation and the practice of snacking / David Marshall -- Disposal -- The milk in the sink: waste, date labeling and food disposal / Carl Yngfalk -- The quest for the empty fridge: examining consumers' mindful food disposition / Elina Närvänen, Nina Mesiranta, and Annilotta Hukkanen -- "Don't waste the waste": dumpster dinners among garbage gourmands / Marie Mourad and Alex Barnard -- Shit happens: excrement as fear of waste, and waste of fear / Robin Canniford and Alan Bradshaw -- Concluding remarks / Benedetta Cappellini, David Marshall and Elizabet