An exploration, both personal and deeply reported, of how we learn to eat in today’s toxic food culture.
“A deeply moving book about the power of appetite to shape all of our lives. Sole-Smith writes with warmth and insight about the sheer complexity of eating today – and how this most basic and joyful of human activities can be relearned.”
— Bee Wilson, food writer and author of First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
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