Food, Love and Meta-Practices: A Study of Everyday Dinner Consumption Among Single Mothers

Purpose – To develop CCT's practice perspective to increase the understanding of the consumption context and thereby of the sociohistoric patterning of consumption. Design/methodology/approach – An ethnographic exploration of how the different practices involved in a consumption situation, like the everyday dinner among single mothers, contextualized consumption. Findings – The chapter concludes that mothering, defined as a meta-practice, dominated the consumption situation and organized the other practices involved. Originality/value – Introducing the concept of meta-practices having a major influence over our consumption and thus a type of practice consumption research should look for.