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Why We Eat The Way We Eat Now

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By: Ruby Tandoh
Narrated by: Ruby Tandoh
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 WINNER AT THE FORTNUM & MASON FOOD AND DRINK AWARDS 2026

SHORTLISTED FOR A GUILD OF FOOD WRITERS AWARD 2026

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

Longlisted for the André Simon Food and Drink Book Award

'Entertaining, alarming, illuminating, alive'
NIGELLA LAWSON
'Brilliant and original'
NIGEL SLATER
'Ruby is a rare and singular voice. I loved this book'
ANNA JONES

The iconic New Yorker and Vittles food writer asks: Why do we eat the way we eat now?

Being 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 own?

Discover All Consuming Bubble Tea | Critics | Recipes | Martha Stewart | Mob |Fast food | Hype queues | Nara Smith | Tiktok | Viennetta | Weekend supplements | Wife Guys | Cult Cookbooks | Lobster | Influencers | Wellness elixirs | Entertaining | Keith Lee | Wimpy with Ruby Tandoh this autumn.

Read by the author ©2025 Ruby Tandoh (P)2022 Profile Books Limited Cooking Food & Wine Gastronomy Funny
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We all eat so we should all read it. A good listen too, poetically read.

Blooming good book

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My most surprising listen of 2026. I thought I was going into a casual listen about 'foodie' trends, but ended up listening to some incisive cultural commentary that also called me out on a few of my own self indulgent behaviours as a self professed lover of cookbooks. Tandoh manages to call out our homogeneous tastes without a tone of judgement, but basically says "I'm right here with you, we're all part of the same moment." Fantastic book.

Deliciously insightful, humbling and witty

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