Fermented Living: Challenges in Adopting a Fermented Dietary Regime and the Role of Food Memories in Acquiring New Tastes.

Autor: Karlsson, Áki Guðni, Birgisdóttir, Bryndís Eva, Pétursson, Jón Þór
Zdroj: Cultural Analysis; 2024, Vol. 22 Issue 2, p117-135, 19p
Abstrakt: Our predisposition to adopt new dietary norms is both personal and intimately connected with our current life situation and our life-story, not least childhood experiences of food. The article describes the challenges, including health concerns, encountered by participants while adopting a fermented diet, in the context of an eight-week dietary intervention study, organized by the researchers. It also describes how memories and experience helped them overcome those challenges and adapt to the new diet. Based on qualitative interviews with seventeen participants in the study, selected at random; the article describes the frustration of not meeting expectations but equally the joy when things work out and we are able to overcome the challenges. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Databáze: Complementary Index