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    The Way We Eat Now: Strategies for Eating in a World of Change
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    The Way We Eat Now: Strategies for Eating in a World of Change
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    The Way We Eat Now: Strategies for Eating in a World of Change

    Written by Bee Wilson

    Narrated by Bee Wilson

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    About this audiobook

    We never snacked like this and we never binged like this. We never had so many superfoods, or so many chips. We were never quite so confused about food, and what it actually is.

    This is a book about the good, the terrible and the avocado toast. A riveting exploration of the hidden forces behind what we eat, The Way We Eat Now explains how modern food, in all its complexity, has transformed our lives and our world. To re-establish eating as something that gives us both joy and health, we need to find out where we are right now, how we got here and what it is that we share.

    Award-winning food writer Bee Wilson explores everything from meal replacements such as Huel, the disappearing lunch hour, the rise of veganism, the lack of time to cook and prepare food and the rapid increase in food delivery services. And Bee provides her own doable strategies for how we might navigate the many options available to us to have a balanced, happier relationship with the food we eat.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins Publishers
    Release dateMar 21, 2019
    ISBN9780008243715
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    The Way We Eat Now: Strategies for Eating in a World of Change
    Author

    Bee Wilson

    Bee Wilson is a home cook, journalist and writer, mostly about food. Yotam Ottolenghi has called her 'the ultimate food scholar'. She writes for a wide range of publications including  the Guardian, The London Review of Books and The Wall Street Journal. She is the author of six books on food-related subjects and she is the co-founder of the food education charity TastEd. She lives in Cambridge and has three children.

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    • 2/5
      The bits where Wilson was talking to scientists and people in the food industry were fascinating. However, her own words were somewhat confused. Apparently it is problematic that food is stripped of the culture of its country of origin, yet conversely, we should all be revelling in the diversity of foods available to us from other countries. It was also rather irritating how she fetishizes foods and rituals that she deems 'good', with a particular paraphilia for beetroot, pickles and grapes with seeds in them. I sometimes wonder whether the book was just a love letter to her own varied, middle class diet.

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    • 3/5
      It's interesting enough but too often judgmental. It's a lot better when she lets food tell its story, instead of her giving her opinions about what we should be eating. Some is just slapdash, such as her saying we work fewer hours now. It's technically true, but doesn't account for the huge rise in women's paid labor or the huge variations in available time.
    • 4/5
      The book is a little scattered, but at least it's not full of misinformation, and it pulls together a lot of valuable social commentary on food consumption around the world and in recent history, and discusses how various influences determine how and what we eat. I was thankful that the author did not omit socioeconomic disincentives to cook the "cleanest" food--nor did she shrink from debunking the new puritanism surrounding food that gave rise to the idea that gluten is toxic, among other idiotic, cultish food ideas. The author concludes on a hopeful note for the improvement of nutrition and the resurrection of cooking. I enjoyed reading it and would recommend it to my "foodie" friends.
    • 3/5
      An extended rant on everything you could possibly find wrong with, well, the way we eat now. I didn't really learn anything, except a lot of Britishisms. "Clingfilm" for plastic wrap. "Veg" for vegetables - much preferable to the babyish "veggies" we say in this country. But anyway, lack of balance really bothered me, more in the beginning of the book than the end. For example, passing rants about increasing alcohol consumption - but a broad swipe like that has no meaning; alcohol consumption has to be the most varied of all food & drink intake habits across time and culture. There are cultures where alcohol has no traditional basis and was never heard of centuries ago; there are cultures where wine is a daily drink. There are American subcultures who are teetotalers; while colonial America was apparently drunk on hard liquor throughout the days of the founding fathers. There's no mention of any of this.It got more enjoyable and balanced towards the end. For example, she's actually tried and liked meal kits, so instead of rants, they get a balanced treatment. She's better when talking about her direct experience than when presenting history.