Food got bigger than DIY about a decade back, but publishing took a while to hoist its tired old frame on to the bandwagon. Now the food books tumble out, unstoppable, in a startling range of sub-genres. There¡¯s the cookbook with jokes. The memoir with recipes. The polemic about food system apocalypse. The cookbook (with gardening tips) for that apocalypse. The part-time vegan diet book with anti-capitalist polemic, recipes and jokes (just reviewed that one, actually). And all of the above, with celebrity attached.
A GREEDY MAN IN A HUNGRY WORLD, by Jay Rayner. William Collins, 2013, 288 pp., $15.99 (paperback)
FEEDING FRENZY: The New Politics of Food, by Paul McMahon. Profile, 2013, 320 pp., ?12.99 (paperback)
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