All Consuming: Why We Eat The Way We Eat Now

(Hardback, Main)

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'A brilliant and engrossing investigation and a sharp riposte to culinary romanticism' FUCHSIA DUNLOP'A fascinating, sometimes shocking, eye-opener that is also brilliantly funny' CLAUDIA RODEN'Witty and profound, informative and original. I loved this book' BEE WILSONThe iconic New Yorker and Vittles food writer asks: Why do we eat the way we eat nowBeing into food - following and making it, queuing for it and discussing it - is no longer a subculture. It's become mass culture.The food landscape is more expansive and dizzying by the day. Recipes, once passed from hand to hand, now flood newspaper supplements and social media. Our tastes are engineered in food factories, hacked by supermarkets and influenced by Instagram reels. Ruby Tandoh's startlingly original analysis traces this extraordinary transformation over the past seventy-five years, making sense of this electrifying new era by examining the social, economic, and technological forces shaping the foods we hunger for today.Exploring the evolution of the cookbook and light-speed growth of bubble tea, the advent of TikTok critics and absurdities of the perfect dinner party, Tandoh's laser-sharp investigation leaves her questioning: how much are our tastes, in fact, our ownDiscover All Consuming Bubble Tea | Critics | Recipes | Martha Stewart | Mob | Fast food | Hype queues | Nara Smith | Tiktok | Viennetta | Weekend supplements | Wife Guys | Cookbooks | Lobster | Influencers | Wellness elixirs | Entertaining | Keith Lee | Wimpy with Ruby Tandoh this autumn.

Reviews

'Praise for Eat Up' - -

'I read it greedily. Thank you' - Nigella Lawson

'Eat Up is brilliant. Buy it. You won't regret it' - Meera Sodha

'A wonderful read, whatever you eat' - Reni Eddo-Lodge

'Eat Up is a joyous manifesto for flavour and sanity ... I loved it' - Bee Wilson

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Ruby Tandoh is a food writer who has written for the New Yorker, Guardian, Vittles and Vice. A finalist on the Great British Bake Off, she has published Eat Up, about the pleasures of eating, as well as three cookery books: Crumb, Flavour and Cook As You Are.