All Consuming

Why We Eat the Way We Eat Now

De: Ruby Tandoh

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.

"Ruby Tandoh is a genius and All Consuming is everything."—Bryan Washington, author of Family Meal

"A fascinating, sometimes shocking, eye-opener that is also brilliantly funny."—Claudia Roden

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.

©2025 Ruby Tandoh (P)2025 Random House Audio

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“All Consuming is extraordinary. In masterful prose, Tandoh shows us who we are, where we’ve been, and where we’re going through what we eat—and also what we say we’re eating, and what we’d like to eat, and what we refuse to eat, alongside everything in between. But All Consuming is just that—all of it—in the expansiveness of Tandoh’s vision, through the humor and knowingness of her craft. Ruby Tandoh is a genius and All Consuming is everything.”—BRYAN WASHINGTON, author of Family Meal

“Ruby Tandoh’s sharp, insightful investigation into our evolving mass food cultures—the influences and drivers, weird excesses and absurdities—is a fascinating, sometimes shocking, eye-opener that is also brilliantly funny.”—CLAUDIA RODEN, author of Claudia Roden’s Mediterranean

“I loved this book. Witty and profound, informative and original, no one could write with more insight than Ruby on the question of our appetites, and what it is that we are really searching for when we google what to make for dinner.”—BEE WILSON, author of Consider the Fork