Food Affectivities and Managing Situations of Crises
Food Affectivities and Managing Situations of Crises

Recollections of an Old Jewish Woman During and After the Second World War

Summary/Abstract: The paper is based on the life history of a woman who lived and died in the Jewish Old People’s Home in the city Thessaloniki in northern Greece. Food plays a key role in her life course, since it enacted emotional responses and affective interactions revealing that belonging is never unproblematic, but is materialized and mediated through the medium of food and eating. The analysis stresses the issue of “comfort food” meaning food that is treated as a means to deal with critical situations and a mechanism for providing positively valued emotions like comfort, security and stability during personal crises and transitional phases in life.

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