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Bad Food Britain - How a Nation Ruined its Appetite (Paperback)
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Bad Food Britain - How a Nation Ruined its Appetite (Paperback)
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Loot Price R277
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Award-winning investigative food journalist, Joanne Blythman turns
her attention to the current hot topic - the state of British food.
What is it about the British and food? We just don't get it, do we?
Britain is notorious worldwide for its bad food and increasingly
corpulent population but it's a habit we just can't seem to kick.
Welcome to the country where recipe and diet books feature
constantly in top 10 bestseller lists but where the average meal
takes only eight minutes to prepare and people spend more time
watching celebrity chefs cooking on TV than doing any cooking
themselves, the country where a dining room table is increasingly
becoming an optional item of furniture. Welcome to the nation that
is almost pathologically obsessed with the safety and provenance of
food but which relies on factory-prepared ready meals for
sustenance, eating four times more of them than any other country
in Europe, the country that never has its greasy fingers out of a
packet of crisps, consuming more than the rest of Europe put
together. Welcome to the affluent land where children eat food that
is more nutririonally impoverished than their counterparts in South
African townships, the country where hospitals can sell fast-food
burgers but not home-baked cake, the G8 state where even the Prime
Minister refuses to eat broccoli. Award-winning investigative food
journalist Joanna Blythman takes us on an amusing, perceptive and
subversive journey through Britain's contemporary food landscape
and traces the roots of our contemporary food troubles in deeply
engrained ideas about class, modernity and progress.
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