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Being into food – following and making it, queuing for it and discussing it – is no longer a subculture. It’s become mass culture, omnipresent as music. The food landscape is more expansive and dizzying by the day. Recipes, once passed from hand to hand, now flood newspaper supplements, TV and social media. Our tastes are painstakingly engineered in food factories, shaped by supermarkets and hacked by craveable Instagram reels. Tandoh’s analysis traces this extraordinary transformation over the past seventy-five years, making sense of this electrifying new era by examining the social, economic, and technological forces shaping the foods we hunger for today.

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WINNER AT THE FORTNUM & MASON FOOD AND DRINK AWARDS 2026SHORTLISTED FOR A GUILD OF FOOD WRITERS AWARD 2026AN OBSERVER, FINANCIAL TIMES, NEW YORK TIMES AND BLACKWELL’S BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025Longlisted for the André Simon Food and Drink Book Award’Entertaining, alarming, illuminating, alive’ Nigella Lawson’Laugh-out-loud funny’ Vogue’Delightful snark’ New York TimesWhy do we eat the way we eat now?The food landscape is more expansive and dizzying by the day. Recipes, once passed from hand to hand, now flood newspaper supplements – if they aren’t being engineered for social media virality. Our cravings are perfected in factories, hacked by supermarkets and influenced by Instagram reels. Exploring the evolution of the cookbook and light-speed growth of bubble tea, the advent of TikTok critics and absurdities of the perfect dinner party, Tandoh’s laser-sharp investigation leaves her questioning: how much are our tastes, in fact, our own?

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Weight 260 g
Dimensions 19.8 × 12.8 × 2.6 cm
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Paperback
Pages

304
Language

English
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Dewey

394.12 (edition:23)
Readership

General – Trade / Code: K

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