Social Contexts of Food Exclusion
Social Contexts of Food Exclusion

Summary/Abstract: This article deals with social problems experienced by people who exclude certain groups of products fromtheir everyday diet. These exclusions stem from various reasons and involve a range of everyday materialand social practices. They evoke particular kinds of social interactions within the household, among hosts andguests, and also induce different reflexive interpretations of the participants.The aim of this paper is to explore the problem of how elimination diets are practised and explained on aneveryday basis, and to describe particular strategies and techniques undertaken by food excluders in shops, intheir kitchens, and at the table. The empirical basis for the qualitative investigation is a set of eight participantobservations combined with in-depth interviews conducted with urban residents with higher education livingin northern Poland.

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