Includes bibliographical references and index.

[pt. I.] Eat. A relational food network: strategy and tools to co-design a local foodshed / Joon Sang Baek, Anna Meroni, and Giulia Simeone -- Technologies of nostalgia: vegetarians and vegans at Addis Ababa Café / Kit MacFarlane and Jean Duruz -- What are we going to eat today? Food recommendations made easy and healthy / Jettie Hoonhout, Nina Gros, Gijs Geleijnse, Peggy Nachtigall, and Aart van Halteren -- Not sharing sushi: exploring social presence and connectedness at the telematic dinner party / Robert Comber, Pollie Barden, Nick Bryan-Kinns, and Patrick Olivier -- Civic intelligence and the making of sustainable food culture(s) / Justin Smith and Douglas Schuler -- [pt. II.] Cook. Supporting mindful eating with the InBalance Chopping Board / Esther Toet, Bernt Meerbeek, and Jettie Hoonhout -- Encouraging fresh food choices with mobile and social technologies: learning from the FlavourCrusader Project / Grant Young and Penny Hagen -- Probing the market: using cultural probes to inform design for sustainable food practices at a farmers' market / Eric P.S. Baumer, Megan Halpern, Vera Khovanskaya, and Geri K. Gay -- Re-placing food: place, embeddedness, and local food / Katharine S. Willis, Katharina Frosch, and Mirjam Struppek -- [pt. III.] Grow. "You don't have to be a gardener to do urban agriculture": understanding opportunities for designing interactive technologies to support urban food production / William Odom -- Augmented agriculture, algorithms, aerospace, and alimentary architectures / Jordan Geiger -- The allure of provenance: tracing food through user-generated production information / Ann Light -- Beyond gardening: a new approach to HCI and urban agriculture / Tad Hirsch -- Hungry for data: metabolic interaction from farm to fork to phenotype / Marc Tuters and Denisa Kera -- Food futures: three provocations to challenge HCI interventions / Greg Hearn and David Lindsay Wright -- Bringing technology to the dining table / Charles Spence -- List of recipes.

Our contemporary concerns about food range from food security to agricultural sustainability to getting dinner on the table for family and friends. This book investigates food issues as they intersect with participatory Internet culture--blogs, wikis, online photo- and video-sharing platforms, and social networks--in efforts to bring about a healthy, socially inclusive, and sustainable food future. Focusing on our urban environments provisioned with digital and network capacities, and drawing on such "bottom-up" sociotechnical trends as DIY and open source, the chapters describe engagements with food and technology that engender (re-)creative interactions.