Granta 52: Food: The Vital Stuff by Ian Jack

Granta 52: Food: The Vital Stuff

Granta #52

Ian Jack with Agnes Owens (Contributor), Graham Swift (Contributor), Chitrita Banerji (Contributor), Andrew O'Hagan (Contributor), Romesh Gunesekera (Contributor), Margaret Visser (Contributor), William Leith (Contributor), Laura Shapiro (Contributor), Amartya Sen (Contributor), Norman Lewis (Contributor), J.M. Coetzee (Contributor), Jane Rogers (Contributor), Charles Jones (Contributor), Giles Foden (Contributor), John Lanchester (Contributor), Sean French (Contributor), Geoffrey Beattie (Contributor), Joan Smith (Contributor), Georges Perec (Contributor)

255 pages first pub 1995 (editions)

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Food as indulgence, certainly, but also food as a taboo, a cruelty, a desperate need, a failed sex aid, and a means of making a living. Including Graham Swift on the life and death of a butcher, J. M. Coetzee’s attempt at vegetarianism in Texas, G...

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