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Welcome, baker, columnist, author and The Great British Bake Off finalist, Ruby Tandoh, to Mr B's for her new book, All Consuming: Why We Eat The Way We Eat Now.

All Consuming looks at how our tastes and appetites have changed over the last 75 years, leading to our mass obsession with food – making it, queuing for it, and discussing it. From Viennetta to bubble tea, Ruby delves into all of the absurdities of our modern food culture, leading her to ask the question: are our tastes, in fact, our own?

Ruby Tandoh is an author and journalist who writes for the Guardian, Elle and Vice. A finalist on the 2013 Great British Bake Off, she has published Eat Up, a book about the pleasure of eating, as well as two cookery books, Cook As You Are and Flavour.

Ruby will be in conversation with Kate Young, author of Experienced, a Team B favourite.

About the book:

The iconic New Yorker and Vittles food writer asks: Why do we eat the way we eat now?

Being into food – following and making it, queuing for it and discussing it – is no longer a subculture. It's become mass culture.

The food landscape is more expansive and dizzying by the day. Recipes, once passed from hand to hand, now flood newspaper supplements and social media. Our tastes are engineered in food factories, hacked by supermarkets and influenced by Instagram reels.

Ruby Tandoh's startlingly original analysis traces this extraordinary transformation over the past seventy-five years, making sense of this electrifying new era by examining the social, economic, and technological forces shaping the foods we hunger for today.

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?

Discover All Consuming Bubble Tea | Critics | Recipes | Martha Stewart | Mob | Fast food | Hype queues | Nara Smith | Tiktok | Viennetta | Weekend supplements | Wife Guys | Cult Cookbooks | Lobster | Influencers | Wellness elixirs | Entertaining | Keith Lee | Wimpy with Ruby Tandoh this autumn.

'Fascinating, funny and devastatingly honest, a must-read on modern food culture in all its technicolour cheese-drenched glory' Felicity Cloarke

'Ruby is a rare and singular voice. I loved this book' Anna Jones

'A fascinating, sometimes shocking, eye-opener that is also brilliantly funny' Claudia Roden

'Witty and profound, informative and original' Bee Wilson

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