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Nourish yourself as though you’re taking care of the most precious thing in the world: strengthen your bones with milkshakes, patch up cuts and bruises with cheese on toast. Eat for your life.
Ruby Tandoh • Eat Up: Food, Appetite and Eating What You Want
We live in a time when food is more polarised than ever, a huge chasm yawning between ‘thoughtful’, ‘foodie’ cooking on the one hand, and fast ‘junk’ food on the other.
Ruby Tandoh • Eat Up: Food, Appetite and Eating What You Want
The magic lay in how the show eschewed the melodrama of American-style contests, with their set menu of competitiveness, sabotage and self-centredness. Instead, it was polite and neurotically perfectionist.
Ruby Tandoh • Eat Up: Food, Appetite and Eating What You Want
Another facet of this enforced shrinking is that those with fat bodies are deemed somehow incapable of knowing what is best for them.
Ruby Tandoh • Eat Up: Food, Appetite and Eating What You Want
This is cause and effect at its most fundamental: goodness on your plate will help to foster goodness in your body.
Ruby Tandoh • Eat Up: Food, Appetite and Eating What You Want

Dictates have given way to a culture of doubt.
Ruby Tandoh • Eat Up: Food, Appetite and Eating What You Want
The whole of the rest of the year is, of course, just a count-down to Christmas.