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It tastes better because … consumer understandings of UK farmers’ market food

It tastes better because … consumer understandings of UK farmers’ market food
It tastes better because … consumer understandings of UK farmers’ market food
In the social sciences there has been much exciting and informative work on farmers’ markets and this paper contributes to this literature by considering how the place of farmers’ markets affects the way consumers understand the taste of food. I draw on the difficulty faced by many consumers in articulating the taste of food, especially when food is perceived to taste good. I explore how consumers demonstrate their evaluations of taste, whether through descriptions of taste that are metaphor-laden or through beliefs and values emboldened by food knowledges and opinions. I argue these are how farmers’ market consumers understand and perform taste in relation to market food. The findings that inform the paper are taken from interviews with farmers’ market consumers in the UK.
Farmers' market food, Performing, Place, Taste
0195-6663
100-107
Spiller, Keith
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Spiller, Keith
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Spiller, Keith (2012) It tastes better because … consumer understandings of UK farmers’ market food. Appetite, 59 (1), 100-107. (doi:10.1016/j.appet.2012.04.007).

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In the social sciences there has been much exciting and informative work on farmers’ markets and this paper contributes to this literature by considering how the place of farmers’ markets affects the way consumers understand the taste of food. I draw on the difficulty faced by many consumers in articulating the taste of food, especially when food is perceived to taste good. I explore how consumers demonstrate their evaluations of taste, whether through descriptions of taste that are metaphor-laden or through beliefs and values emboldened by food knowledges and opinions. I argue these are how farmers’ market consumers understand and perform taste in relation to market food. The findings that inform the paper are taken from interviews with farmers’ market consumers in the UK.

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Accepted/In Press date: 11 April 2012
e-pub ahead of print date: 18 April 2012
Published date: 1 August 2012
Keywords: Farmers' market food, Performing, Place, Taste

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Local EPrints ID: 471964
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/471964
ISSN: 0195-6663
PURE UUID: cf1ba91c-8abf-4244-9024-5880e4383f40
ORCID for Keith Spiller: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-5796-8165

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