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Nourish yourself as though you’re taking care of the most precious thing in the world: strengthen your bones with milkshakes, patch up cuts and bruises with cheese on toast. Eat for your life.
Ruby Tandoh • Eat Up: Food, Appetite and Eating What You Want
We live in a time when food is more polarised than ever, a huge chasm yawning between ‘thoughtful’, ‘foodie’ cooking on the one hand, and fast ‘junk’ food on the other.
Ruby Tandoh • Eat Up: Food, Appetite and Eating What You Want
The magic lay in how the show eschewed the melodrama of American-style contests, with their set menu of competitiveness, sabotage and self-centredness. Instead, it was polite and neurotically perfectionist.
Ruby Tandoh • Eat Up: Food, Appetite and Eating What You Want
Dictates have given way to a culture of doubt.
Ruby Tandoh • Eat Up: Food, Appetite and Eating What You Want
The whole of the rest of the year is, of course, just a count-down to Christmas.
Ruby Tandoh • Eat Up: Food, Appetite and Eating What You Want
This was the purest kind of escapism. There’s a lot of power in this kind of nostalgia, of course: it’s why Bake Off topped the TV ratings year after year, and reinvigorated a national appetite for cake. But, just like the comfort food it features – the scones, cheerful cubist Battenburg cakes, éclairs and pies – we can only survive on this diet fo
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Mooncakes and Milk Bread: Sweet and Savory Recipes Inspired by Chinese Bakeries
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We don’t want to go hungry, we don’t want to be greedy, we don’t want to live too exuberantly, we don’t want to be a kill-joy.
Ruby Tandoh • Eat Up: Food, Appetite and Eating What You Want
of passion, greed, an eagerness to please on an industrial scale and a great big heart.