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All Consuming : Why We Eat the Way We Eat Now - Ruby Tandoh

All Consuming

Why We Eat the Way We Eat Now

By: Ruby Tandoh

Paperback | 1 September 2026

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Ruby Tandoh's funny and forensic bestseller explores modern food culture - from TikTok to cookbooks

AN OBSERVER, FINANCIAL TIMES, NEW YORK TIMES AND BLACKWELL'S BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025

Longlisted for the Andre Simon Food and Drink Book Award

'Entertaining, alarming, illuminating, alive' Nigella Lawson

'Laugh-out-loud funny' Vogue

'Delightful snark' New York Times

Why 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?

About the Author

Ruby Tandoh is a food writer who has written for the New Yorker, Guardian, Vittles and Vice. A finalist on the Great British Bake Off, she has published Eat Up, about the pleasures of eating, as well as three cookery books: Crumb, Flavour and Cook As You Are.

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