Covering all the pressing food dilemmas of our times, award-winning food writer Joanna Blythman assesses the desirability of common foods from all angles, showing you how to make sensible, thoughtful and practical choices about what to eat each day, irrespective of your income. Food should be one of life's greatest pleasures, yet increasingly, the choices facing consumers have become increasingly problematic. As well as having to think about what food may, or may not, be doing to you and yours, twenty-first century eaters have to think about what impact the food we eat is having on the environment, farm animals and food producers, both in far away places and back home. Globally, the world is running low on food and water, so we can no longer rely on a steady supply of cheap food. Meanwhile on the home front, many of us are watching our money like never before.
Reviews for Shopped: She probably knows more than anyone else about where our food comes from.' Nigel Slater 'Joanna Blythman has bravely and compellingly exposed the corrosive effect of supermarkets on our farming and our food culture. And she has rightly identified you, the consumer, as the only person who can do anything about it. Don't read it and weep. Read it and change the way you shop.' Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall 'Shocking and powerful.' Guardian 'She'll fire you up with a righteous fervour that may last beyond your return to the mainland.' The Times 'Blythman has provided a compelling wake-up call'. Financial Times Reviews for Bad Food Britain: 'Wittily charts our wasteful, unhealthy eating habits.' Rose Prince, Telegraph 'Thought provoking and engaging.' BBC Good Food Magazine 'A gruesome portrait of national degradation!she composes this!with precision, contempt and a truthfulness that is recklessly unselfserving.' New Statesman 'A comprehensive denunciation of our food culture, from supermarkets and restaurants to TV chefs and cookery books.' Glasgow Herald 'Joanna Blythman's pleasurably splenetic tirade against the food industry.' Prospect Magazine 'A stern warning, more effective then any government health campaign!an honest representation of a nation in crisis.' Sunday Business Post 'A book that anyone who cares about what they and the country eat should read, digest and act upon.' Sunday Times
Title: What to eat
Subtitle: food that's good for your health, pocket and plate
Contributors:
By (author)
Joanna Blythman
ISBN 13: 9780007341429
ISBN 10: 0007341423
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Imprint: Fourth Estate Ltd
Publication Date: 18/05/2012
Place of Publication:
London,
United Kingdom
Edition:
BIC Subjects:
Cookery / food & drink etc
NBS Classification: Food & Drink: General
Dewey Classification:
641.5
(DC22)
Format: Hardback
Pages: 400
Height: 222mm
Width: 141mm
Weight: 720g