Serving Up

A groundbreaking collection of essays about food and its powerful link to identity, culture and community, from twenty exciting voices around the world.

‘A must read’ Yemisi Aribisala, author of Longthroat Memoirs

We hear about a family ritual of drying mango and pickling limes in India, and the search for a father’s favourite hotdog in North Carolina. We investigate Latino food in cinema and vegetarianism in Buddhist diets, the cultural appropriation of Chinese food and the effect of gentrification on Black communities. And, we learn about the grassroots organisations fighting for change, for equality for farmers and for better mental health provisions in kitchens, where toxicity and microaggressions are rife.

Edited by chef and activist Zoe Adjonyoh, and featuring a foreword by acclaimed author and broadcaster Yasmin Khan, Serving Up is an electric, urgent anthology campaigning for representation around our dinner tables, wherever that dinner table may be. 

Includes essays from: Abigail Koffler, Apoorva Sripathi, Chris Nigro, Cynthia Greenlee, Duron Chavis, Fatima Tarkleman, Hassel Aviles, Izzie Ramirez, Lee Tran Lam, Lenore Adkins and others.

‘A smörgåsbord of insightful and eclectic food writing . . . It will make you laugh, it will make you cry, it will make you hungry, and best of all, it will make you think’ MiMi Aye, author of Mandalay

‘I found it a stimulating, thought-provoking read and welcomed the opportunity to hear from fresh voices’ Jenny Linford, author of The Missing Ingredient

‘Serving Up’s informed writing peels the skin off our surface-level obsession with what we eat’ Corey Mintz, author of The Next Supper

Paperback: 400pp

Published: Wilton Square 

ISBN: 9781800183384