Granta 52: Food: The Vital Stuff by Ian Jack

Granta 52: Food: The Vital Stuff

Granta #52

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