🥙📲 How to trust 'healthy' food in the app-based food delivery market?

Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Hyderabad, Pallavi Laxmikanth explores how #foods are valued and come to be of #value in a new online marketplace in this newly published paper @jcultecon 1/4

She found that "when encountering ‘unknown’ restaurants in online transactions, consumers enacted embodied knowing – a sensory and visceral attention to the taste and texture of the food.” And that “Tasting and sensing were performative acts of valuing these foods, rendering … 2/4

their commensurable and incommensurable values in the marketplace."

#FoodTech #FoodDelivery #OnlineMarketplaces #ethnography #values #embodiment

🥑The article is part of a special issue on ‘Digital Eating’ in @JCultEcon that I am co-editing with Karin Eli and @jfl_brice 3/4