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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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JOHN GREEN’s palette is tickled by useful information leavened by amusing and unusual anecdotes, incidental gossip and scare stories
The bard contemplates X — anti-human vomit soup with dog shit croutons — and the Tory recycling bin that is Reform
ALAN MORRISON recommends an outstanding and timely anthology of poems that reflect the experience and consequences of African migration
BINOY KAMPMARK examines the food racket as evidenced by the recent promotion of Italian cuisine to the status of ‘intangible national heritage’
FIONA O’CONNOR and MARIA DUARTE review State of Statelessness, Rental Family, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, and The Rip
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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