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Podcast: New Books in Food
Episode: Sam van Zweden, "Eating with My Mouth Open" (NewSouth, 2021)
Description: Wow! Food, family, memory, insight, body, mind - worth the effort this one.Eating with My Mouth Open (NewSouth, 2021) is food writing like you’ve never seen before: honest, brave, and exceptionally tasty. Lyrically written, Sam van Zweden offers a millennial response to classic food writers, revelling in body positivity on Instagram, remembering how Tupperware piled high with sweets can be a symptom of spiralling mental health, dissecting wellness culture and all its flaws, sharing the joys of living in a family of chefs and seeing a history of migration on her dinner plate.Recalling the...