Abstract

This chapter is about food sharing, specifically the social and economic interactions and transformations generated through the daily activities of a pay-as-you-feel community café. The café worked with intercepted surplus food and was based in a north east of England market town. The chapter is informed by Young’s (1997) idea of asymmetrical reciprocity which recognises difference and diversity of experience with the possibility that this brings people into new and different social, economic, material and political relations. Participatory research with a small group of café regulars identified and documented: reciprocity as finding expressions of valuing both the food and understanding others, the transformation in individual’s lives regarding food insecurity and social interaction, and the ‘quiet’ politics and activism (after Askins, 2015) concerning food security and food waste that the café’s food sharing practise had generated.

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