| Personal Name |
Tandoh, Ruby, author.
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| Title Statement |
All consuming : why we eat the way we eat now / Ruby Tandoh.
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| Varying Form of Title |
Why we eat the way we eat now.
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| Edition Statement |
First U.S. hardcover edition.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2025.
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| Physical Description |
293 pages ; 22 cm.
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| Content Type |
text txt rdacontent.
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| Media Type |
unmediated n rdamedia.
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| Carrier Type |
volume rdacarrier.
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| General Note |
"A Borzoi book."
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| General Note |
"Originally published in Great Britain by Serpent's Tail, an imprint of Profile Books Ltd., in 2025"--Title page verso.
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| Bibliography, Etc. Note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-289).
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| Formatted Contents Note |
Introduction -- Home cooking. Craving content : or, the unsubtle art of selling a recipe -- On the seventh day, they cooked : or, how newspaper supplements invented British foodies -- Allrecipes : or, the chaotic recipes of the realist's internet -- Tastemakers. The critic hits the road : or, real influencers and where to find them -- Anatomy of queue : or, the pleasure and pitfalls of hype extension --- I like bubble tea : or, the cultural ingredients of a global mega-trend -- Everything but the recipe. Dream home : or, fantasy and feeding, from magazines to Instagram -- Now not to use a cookbook : or, the power and limits of writing about food -- 'Cook remaining 100 lobsters' : or, the modern cook's guide to entertaining -- Impulse buy. Supermarket fugue : or, an experiential history of four superstores -- The ice cream age : or, how to invent a hit ice cream -- Tonic waters : or, the rise and rise of the magic wellness drink -- Fast food. The automat is dead : or, on the past and future lives of food machines -- Wimpy : or, the good, the bad and the ugly of British American food -- Epilogue -- Further reading -- Acknowledgments.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"Over the past seventy-five years, food has gone from a fact of life to national pastime; something to be thought about -- and talked about--24/7. Out tastes have been radically refashioned, painstakingly engineered in the depths of food factories, and hacked by craveable Instagram recipes. In this startling original, deeply irreverent cultural history, bestselling author Ruby Tandoh traces that transformation, exposing how cult cookbooks, bad TV, visionary restaurants, and now social media have all wildly overhauled our appetites. All Consuming is a deep dive into the social, economic, cultural, legislative, and demographic forces that have reshaped our world--and made us all foodies"-- Dust jacket flap.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Food habits.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Food habits History.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Food in popular culture.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Food Philosophy.
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