About this episode
Ruby Tandoh discusses her culinary influences, regional food traditions, and her new book on food culture.
Celebrated food writer and Great British Bake Off finalist Ruby Tandoh talks about growing up with Nigel Slater on her parents' bookshelf, hosting earnest teenage dinner parties, and finding her own voice on the page. She digs into regional food traditions from Manchester’s spicy dip burgers to Scotland’s arbroath smokies, the strange pressures of algorithm-driven food culture, the joy of old cookbooks and weird jelly molds, her new book All Consuming: Why We Eat the Way We Eat Now, and why she’s still hopeful about the future of food. Learn more at: https://www.foodandwine.com/tinfoil-swans-podcast-s3-ep31-ruby-tandoh-and-the-spicy-dip-burgers-11857119 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
People in this episode
Guest: Ruby Tandoh
Topics covered
- food writing
- regional food traditions
- cooking culture
- algorithm-driven food
- cookbooks
- hope for the future of food
Keywords
- Ruby Tandoh
- spicy dip burgers
- food culture
- cookbooks
- Great British Bake Off
- regional food
- algorithm-driven food
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: All Consuming: Why We Eat the Way We Eat Now
Places: Manchester, Scotland, Arbroath
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