28th October, 7.30pm - Ruby Tandoh, All Consuming

Backstory, 71 Balham High Rd, SW12 9AP

We're excited to welcome Bake Off finalist and food columnist Ruby Tandoh down to Backstory to chat about her latest book. All Consuming explores modern food culture, from TikTok food critics to supermarket trends to the economics of eating. It's a fascinating exploration of what's changed in food culture over the past seventy-five years.

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?

Tickets Available:

Ticket only - £15 (This ticket does not include a copy of the book. You can decide to buy a copy on the night, but this will be charged in addition, at the full price of the book.)

Ticket & book  (RRP £18.99) - £28 (To collect on the night or in advance after the publication date of 4 September.)