The article contributes to the debates in geography on the inequality of knowledge production and the context-dependent hierarchy of knowledge claims. It seeks to make sense of the invisibility, to Western academia, of East European informal food provisioning as a research topic with the potential to inform debates and theorisations regarding alternative food systems. Looking at how East European informal food practices have been read from the West is instructive for understanding how certain knowledge ‘travels’ and becomes universally accepted knowledge – or theory – or remains a partial knowledge with validity restricted to specific places and circulating within specific subfields.

本文为有关知识生产的不平等和知识主张的上下文相关层次结构的地理辩论提供了帮助。它试图使西方学术界对东欧非正式食品供应的隐蔽性成为一个研究主题，并有可能为有关替代食品系统的辩论和理论提供参考。看看如何从西方那里读懂东欧非正式食品的做法，对于理解某些知识如何“行进”并成为普遍接受的知识（或理论），或者仍然是部分知识，其有效性仅限于特定地点并在特定子领域内传播具有指导意义。