摘要：In this, the second part of a two-part special issue, we continue to explore the ways in whichliquid modernity influences the relations we, as humans, have with food as leisure. The worldwhere food represented a sense of cultural and social stability appears to have disappeared. Formany, ‘meat and three veg’ (Douglas 1972; Murcott 1983; Mennell, Murcott, and van Otterloo1992) is no longer the language of the dinner time meal. Rather, eating is embedded in aculture of consumption that renders traditional rhythms of time and place irrelevant.Growing numbers of urban dwellers now order food (and drink) ‘virtually’ where choice is dic-tated bymarket rather than social forces. Choices for dinner (or amid-afternoon snack) becomelimited only by the speed at which new businesses open, delivered at almost any time to one’shome by a gig-economy worker whose time is necessarily fluid based on the whims of the indi-viduals’ desire to consume.
