All Consuming: Why We Eat The Way We Eat Now

Ruby Tandoh
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AN OBSERVER, FINANCIAL TIMES, NEW YORK TIMES AND BLACKWELL'S BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025

Longlisted for the Andre Simon Food and Drink Book Award

Ruby Tandoh's funny and forensic bestseller explores modern food culture - from TikTok to cookbooks

Why do we eat the way we eat now?The food landscape is more expansive and dizzying by the day. Recipes, once passed from hand to hand, now flood newspaper supplements - if they aren't being engineered for social media virality. Our cravings are perfected in factories, hacked by supermarkets and influenced by Instagram reels.

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 own?

'Entertaining, alarming, illuminating, alive' Nigella Lawson

'Laugh-out-loud funny' Vogue

'Delightful snark' New York Times
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