| Can food be socially just and cheap? The best books on sustainable eating |
[30 Dec 2019|07:00am] |
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https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/dec/30/further-reading-best-books-sustainable-eating-kristin-kimball Farmer and writer Kristin Kimball chooses her favourite works on how to eat better, including making use of leftovers and selecting quality meat Imagine if there were a standard recipe for sustainable eating, a sort of chow for ethical people. We could stock the pantry with bags of it and rest easy. Why can’t we? Because the notion of sustainable eating is irreducibly complex. It is inextricable from culture and geographically variable. The idea of “sustainablility” reflects our values, and our values are as variable as our tastes. They might include animal rights, genetic modification, use of natural resources and a living wage for farm workers, just for a start. Continue reading...
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| Braised Pork by An Yu review – a bizarre psychological odyssey |
[30 Dec 2019|07:00am] |
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https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/dec/30/braised-pork-an-yu-review A young widow tries to make sense of her husband’s death in a wild and distinctive debut Set mostly in Beijing, this rich and strange debut follows Jia Jia, a young painter who finds her husband, Chen Hang, an older businessman, dead in the bath while she’s packing for their winter break. Horror soon gives way to ambivalence in the novel’s first narrative swerve. But as details of Jia Jia’s four-year marriage emerge, it’s easy to share her relief that “she no longer had to abide by rules made by anybody else”: Chen Hang belittled her art, made her feel she needed to hide a birthmark on her inner thigh during intercourse and that he “would have cared more for her” had she borne him a child. Continue reading...
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