Food

Devoured

Every time I read a book about food and culture, a book like Sophie Egan’s Devoured, I end up chiding myself for being such a poor eater.

Towards the end of The Apprentice, Jacques Pépin describes his current home kitchen, custom-built to his desires after a lifetime spent in the culinary industry. The kitchen as he describes it is dreamy: everything in its right place, with an abundance of counter space and the best tools for the task.

The Vegetarian

When I finally turned the final page of Han Kang’s The Vegetarian, I was torn: there was a part of me that found the book unsettling, and another that found it mesmerizing. A few hours later, having ruminated slightly upon the effect it had on me, I came to describe it with another, more apt word…