Food is central to our sense of identity. The way any given human group eats helps it assert its
diversity, hierarchy and organisation, but also, at the same time, both its oneness and the
otherness of whoever eats differently. Food is also central to individual identity, in that any given
human individual is constructed, biologically, psychologically and socially by the foods he/she
choses to incorporate. This paper is intended as a speculative survey of the ways in which food is
related to identity formation