Unveiling the Hidden Forces Shaping Our Relationship with Food: A Provocative Review of Amber Husain’s "Tell Me How You Eat"
A full spectrum of eating styles gets put under a microscope: vegetarianism, including its links to Fascism (she herself is vegan), as well as the gluttony of Roman orgies. Celebrity chefs Anthony Bourdain and Nigella Lawson make appearances. The quest turns poetic when we join Audre Lorde traipsing through Greenwich Village and attending banquets thrown by and for feminists in Queens, and Diane di Prima, who created the Diggers in San Francisco, who conceived of collective dining as a revolutionary act.
