Introduction: Exploring the materiality of food "stuffs" : transformations, embodiment and ritualized consumption / Louise Steel and Katharina Zinn -- Part One. Transformations -- From raw resources to food processing : archaeobotanical and ethnographic insights from New Kingdom Amara West and present-day Ernetta Island in Northern Sudan / Philippa Ryan -- The domestication of innovation : advertizing strategies for canned foods in the Netherlands, 1945-1985 / Jon Verriet -- Our "daily bread" : the origins of grinding grain and breadmaking / Brian Hayden, Laurie Nixon-Darcus and Logan Ansell -- Bodies of water : exploring water flows in rural Kenya / Luci Attala -- Part Two. Embodied encounters -- Embodied spirituality and self-divinization : a re-reading of the Legend of Princess Miaoshan / Thomas Jansen -- Permaculture : discovering nature, designing ecologies / Elaine Forde -- The logistics of bread production in Old Kingdom Egypt : a nutritional perspective / Claire Malleson -- "Everyday" foodways and social connections in Pompeian houses / Penelope Allison -- Part Three. Symbolic consumption -- Sumptuous feasting in the ancient Near East : exploring the materiality of the royal tombs of Ur / Louise Steel -- Lacklustre offering plates? : symbolic food consumption, ritual, and representations in ancient Egyptian funerary culture / Katharina Zinn -- The materiality of ecstatic ritual : altered states of consciousness and ritual in late Bronze Age Cyprus / David Collard -- Ritual and daily life in the Chinese Bronze Age : foodstuffs and bodies in depositional context at Yanshi Shangcheng / Katrinka Reinhart -- The ambiguous (but important) materiality of food / Richard Wilk