Food is essential to human existence. What we eat and how we eat says who we are. There has long been interest in describing and explaining our connections to food as well as understanding the different ways food shapes our lives. In the last decades, there has been an explosion of interest on food issues. Best-selling books such as "The Omnivore's Dilemma" (Pollan 2006) and "Fast Food Nation" (Schlosser 2012) describe the problems of our globalized and industrial food system and offer more sustainable alternatives. Documentaries such as "Food, Inc." (2008), "Food Matters," (2008) and "Super Size Me" (2004) question our diets and eating habits. Cooking and dining out are main themes in television shows, lifestyle magazines, and social media. In the academy, food studies has emerged as an interdisciplinary field where food is studied in terms of political and economic systems of production and consumption, as well as a cultural symbol and everyday experience. Geography is central to these contemporary conversations, as evidenced by increased research, teaching, and writing on the geographies of food. But, what does geography specifically contribute to the topic? If discussions of food are ubiquitous today in popular culture and academic circles, it is important that we ask how a geographic perspective can provide us with richer and contextualized descriptions and explanations of our connections to food and of our food practices--the ways food is produced, distributed, acquired, and consumed.