Eat Up: Food, Appetite and Eating What You Want

Review

I read it greedily. Thank you. (Nigella Lawson)

Eat Up! is brilliant. Thought-provoking, hunger-stoking and so very well written. Buy it. You won't regret it. (Meera Sodha)

A wonderful read, whatever you eat. Loved this book for helping me rediscover joy in food when 'new year, new me' diet rhetoric was getting unbearable. (Reni Eddo-Lodge)

If you love food, complications and all, then Ruby's incisive manifesto - to enjoy food for what it is - is for you. (Thomasina Miers)

Eat Up! is a joyous manifesto for flavour and sanity. It will give you more nourishment and - not to mention waffles! - than any number of clean eating books. Tandoh takes in everything from Nepalese chicken dumplings to the science of taste; from blackberrying to the films of Alfred Hitchcock. Ruby Tandoh has written a genre-busting antidote to food-anxiety. You come away from it feeling braver and determined to eat with more freedom and gusto. I loved it. (Bee Wilson)

I not only ate it up, I devoured it! A salutary reminder that food is about nourishment in all its senses - thank you Ruby for putting the pleasure back into eating. (Helen Goh, co-author of Sweet (with Yotam Ottolenghi))

Ruby Tandoh has written a hand grenade of a book. What I love most about Eat Up is all of the books that it isn't. It isn't a recipe collection full of soft-focus food pornography, the author lifting something glistening to her perfect lips, alone in an immaculate kitchen. It isn't a manual for how to save your soul by way of microent-inflected mortification of the . It is not a memoir of one young woman's emotional journey, served rare with a side of gawking and a comforting, sweet finish. Like Tandoh, it refuses to be anything but what it is: a strange, special, occasionally repetitive book that is somehow so much more than it was meant to be ... she takes graceful at the cult of , front-loads the economics of food poverty and provides a recipe for a can of fizzy pop, cold from the fridge ... Eat Up is part-Delia Smith, part-Irvine Welsh. (Laurie Penny New Statesman 2018-02-09)

Ruby's writing in Eat Up! is moreish. Her third book is witty, thoughtful, epigrammatic, sometimes scholarly and always passionate ... Eat Up!'s mission is to replace our collective nervousness about food with guilt-free appreciation (Andrew Billen Times 2018-01-30)

Eat Up is really, really, really good (Dolly Alderton The High Low Podcast 2018-02-07)

Tandoh takes the reader on an optimistic, witty, inclusive ride through our relationship with food ... she is at her best when she is giddy with the joy of cooking ... a warm, reassuring book [and] a defiantly upbeat read (Lisa Markwell The i Paper 2018-02-16)

Book Description

Sunday Times Bestseller

Ruby Tandoh's radical manifesto takes the guilt out of eating and puts the pleasure back in.