Ruby Tandoh + Rachel Syme: All Consuming

Join us for an event with notable writer Ruby Tandoh, discussing her new book All Consuming: Why We Eat the Way We Eat Now. Joining Ruby in conversation is staff writer for The New Yorker Rachel Syme. This event will be hosted in the Strand Book Store's 3rd floor Rare Book Room at 828 Broadway on 12th Street.

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Hype restaurants. Allrecipes. The Great British Bake Off. Food dominates our every waking minute. In this dazzling cultural history, acclaimed food writer Ruby Tandoh traces the story of how—and why—we’ve all became foodies.

“Who isn’t a food person these days? … Foodie-ism has become more than just a subculture, it is the culture.”

How, in the space of a few decades, has food gone from “fact of life” to “national past time”; something to be thought about—and talked about—24/7?

In this startlingly original, deeply irreverent cultural history, Ruby Tandoh traces how our culinary tastes have been transformed; how they’ve been pulled into supermarket aisles and seduced by Michelin stars, transfixed by Top Chefs and shaped by fads. All Consuming is a deep dive into the social, economic, cultural, legislative, and demographic forces that have reshaped our relationship with food.

From the rise of the food writer to the dream of the modern dinner party; from the unlikely adoption of bubble tea to the advent of the TikTok restaurant critic, in these essays, Tandoh questions how our tastes have been shaped—and how much they are, in fact, our own.

Photo credit: Eva Pentel

Ruby Tandoh is an author and journalist who has written for The New Yorker, The Guardian, Vittles, and Elle. A finalist on The Great British Bake Off in 2013, she has also written Eat Up!, a book about the pleasure of eating, as well as three cookery books, Crumb, Flavour, and Cook As You Are.

Rachel Syme, a staff writer for The New Yorker, has covered Hollywood, theatre, music, style, television, books, and other cultural subjects since 2012. Her cultural criticism and reported features, which focusprimarily on women’s lives, artistic production, history, and fame, have also appeared in the New York Times Magazine, GQ, New York, Vogue, Rolling Stone, and Vanity Fair, among other publications. She is the author of Syme’s Letter Writer, which was released in January of this year, and is now at work on a nonfiction collection for Knopf.

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