2 Jun 2020

Food writing in the 21st century

From Afternoons, 2:10 pm on 2 June 2020

It's time for our Tuesday book critic and today Robert Kelly is taking a look at the kitchen bookshelf. He joins Jesse to explain his argument that all good food writing isn't actually about food at all. 

Illustration from Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat

Photo: Courtesy of Wendy MacNaughton

Books Discussed: 

 - Blood, Bones and Butter by Gabriel Hamilton  

- The Sorcerer's Apprentices by Lisa Abend 

- The Omnivore's Dilemma and Cooked by Michael Pollan

-  Pour Me and Table Talk by A.A. Gill 

-  Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat by Samin Nosrat 

-  Garlic and Sapphires by Ruth Reichl 

-  Love, Peace, and Taco Grease: How I Left My Abusive Husband and Found Guy Fieri by Rax King