The Digest Food Reading Circle

Session 3: Ethics and Origins

John Berger — ‘The Eaters and the Eaten’ from Why Look at Animals?

David Foster Wallace — ‘Consider the Lobster’ from Consider the Lobster and Other Essays

Dan Saladino — ‘Hazda Honey from Eating to Extinction’ from The Dinner Table: Over 100 Writers on Food (eds. Risbridger and Young)

Session 2: Food and Identity

Pragya Agarwal — ‘The Slow Dance’ from Hinterland Nonfiction Issue 8 (Food Writing Special)

Yemisi Aribasala — ‘The Long and Short of the Love Affair’ from In the Kitchen: Essays on Food and Life (various authors)

George Orwell — Extract from The Road to Wigan Pier

Mark Riddaway— ‘Tomatoes’ from Borough Market: Edible Histories

Session 1: The Pleasures of Food

Nigella Lawson – ‘Basics etc.’ from How to Eat: The Pleasures and Principles of Good Food

Yemisi Aribisala – ‘Longthroat Memoirs: Soups, Sex and Nigerian Tastebuds’ from The Dinner Table: Over 100 Writers on Food (eds. Risbridger and Young)

Marcel Proust – extract from Swann’s Way

UNESCO – Listing of ‘Gastronomic Meal of the French’ on the register of ‘Intangible Heritage’