4e de couv.: The papers included in this volume deal with historical and ongoing cultural processes concerned with foor and meals in local, regional, national and transnational contexts. They also focus on issues such as food production, organic agriculture, ecological food, ethical consumption, and food marketing, and on the food choices and practices involved in the daily organisation of food intake in the home, restaurant or public institution. How global trends affect, or even re-invent, the notion of traditional food is also discussed, as is the subject of future food consumption and the role of ecological food in that context.