![]() In My Life in France she writes that ‘No one is born a great cook, one learns by doing’, and comes across as a sort of gourmand Yoda. Even Julia Child seems to have a sort of philosophy on her mind when she writes about food. Nigel Slater remains one of the finest food writers around – whether he’s using food nostalgia as a means to explore family is his memoir Toast, or simply to meditate on the value of the seasons in books like his two Greenfeast volumes. ![]() In the same way that The Great Gatsby isn’t really about Gatsby, or Nick, the very best food writing uses food to tell us more about ourselves, and who we are as individuals. Food, when written well, is a character that interacts with the world around it. There is almost always something else that sits at the heart of the food writing that most appeals to us the essays, memoirs or cookbooks that we read cover to cover as though they were a novel. ![]() ![]() The best food writing is never really about the food. ![]()
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