Reader Score
84%
84% of readers
recommend this book
Critic Reviews
Great
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"I read it greedily." --Nigella Lawson
Ruby Tandoh implores us to enjoy and appreciate food in all of its many forms. Food is, after all, what nourishes our bodies, helps us commemorate important milestones, cheers us up when we're down, expands our minds, and connects us with the people we love. But too often, it's a source of anxiety and unhappiness. With Eat Up!, Tandoh celebrates one of life's greatest pleasures, drawing inspiration from sources as diverse as Julia Child to The Very Hungry Caterpillar, flavor memories to jellied eels. She takes on the wellness industry and fad diets, and rejects the snobbery surrounding "good" and "bad" food, in wide-ranging essays that will reshape the way you think about eating.
Ruby Tandoh is a food writer, blogger and author.
today EAT UP! is out in the US ... i see in EAT UP a book that is thoughtful, concerned with kindness and always trying to bring joy back into food. it's a meditation on what makes eating so good, and an invitation to reconsider your biases and anxieties about food and diet.
John Birdsall is an author and former restaurant critic.
Great British Bake Off survivor Ruby Tandoh wants us to find joy in our imperfect appetites. My review of EAT UP! https://t.co/9G0lCJK8Xj
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"A colorful, thoughtful collection that reads like memoir-meets-food science, perfect for foodies and anyone looking to examine their relationship with food and celebrate the joy of eating." --Library Journal (starred review)
"[Tandoh] looks at food as a 'whole picture, ' sharing facts and culinary studies that will uplift readers--from waxing poetic about the liberating joys of baking to citing studies that correlate the pleasure humans derive from food to its nutritional power. . . . Home cooks will appreciate the handful of recipes sprinkled throughout, such as a sweet potato and smoky butternut squash stew with chickpea dumplings." --Publishers Weekly
"Part memoir, occasional cookbook, and mostly manifesto, this book . . . will have those ready to tackle the problems of Western food culture nodding 'Yes!' as Tandoh challenges the status quo." --Booklist