In his second round-up, EWAN CAMERON picks excellent solo shows that deal with Scottishness, Englishness and race as highlights
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STEVE ANDREW welcomes a political interrogation of the contradiction between ecological awareness and a dietary crisis in today’s food consumption
THE POLITICS OF FOOD PRODUCTION: Landless Workers' Movement members on the National March for Agrarian Reform, marching to Brasilia, May 2005.
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Fiery words from the Bard in Blackpool and Edinburgh, and Evidence Based Punk Rock from The Protest Family
MATTHEW HAWKINS is mesmerised by a performance that dissolves the line between audience and performer
MATTHEW SHARPE recommends the essays of a Renaissance politician that instruct and unnerve after 400 years
GAVIN O’TOOLE welcomes the reissue of a seminal work of revolutionary theory that have genuine relevance in the current context
RON JACOBS rides shotgun with a member of Black Bloc on the wave of anti-capitalist protests of the 1990s and early 2000s
Stuffed: A political history of what we eat and why it matters
Pen Vogler, Atlantic Books, £10.99
COVERING a huge range of subjects, Stuffed is very much about the history of foods and tastes that we often take for granted.
However, given that the shelves of every corporate bookshop and remainder shop are littered with endless variants of street food, of different takes on national cuisines, of fad diets and already well-known recipes revamped by celebrity chefs, combined with ghost-written biographies, why the interest in this particular text?
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STEVEN ANDREW recommends an informed and personable work that contains as many ommisions as it does analyses