Summary
To eat is to build upon our collective story. We use food to say, again and again, who we are.
Eating with My Mouth Open is food writing like you’ve never seen before: honest, bold, and exceptionally tasty. Sam van Zweden’s personal and cultural exploration of food, memory, and hunger revels in body positivity, dissects wellness culture and all its flaws, and shares the joys of being part of a family of chefs.
Celebrating food and all the bodies it nurtures, …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781742236988 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1742236987 |
| Author: | Sam van Zweden |
| Publisher: | NewSouth Publishing |
| Imprint: | NewSouth Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 1 February 2021 |
| Weight: | 333g |
| Dimensions: | 209mm x 139mm x 13mm |
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Critics Review
‘Amazingly attuned to those tender points where food tangles with family, trauma, illness and mental wellbeing – Sam van Zweden describes everyday food moments with clarity and compassion in a way that made me fall in love with food all over again.’ — Ruby Tandoh, author of Eat Up!‘Eating With my Mouth Open is a beautiful book: heartfelt, intelligent and full of love.’ — Fiona Wright, author of The World Was Whole and Small Acts of Disappearance;‘This is writing as sustenance. The book’s moments of deep insight and intimacy, all its quiet revolutions, are answerable – as is the case with the most enduring nonfiction – to two gods only: truth and nurture.’ — Maria Tumarkin, author of Axiomatic.
About The Author
Sam van Zweden
Sam van Zweden is a Melbourne-based writer interested in memory, mental health and the body. Her writing has appeared in the Saturday Paper, Meanjin, The Big Issue, The Lifted Brow, Cordite, the Sydney Review of Books, The Wheeler Centre and others. Her work has been shortlisted for the Scribe Nonfiction Prize for Young Writers, the Lifted Brow and on/fictionLab Experimental Nonfiction Writing Prize, and the Lord Mayor’s Creative Writing Awards. Eating with My Mouth Open won the 2019 Kill Your Darlings Unpublished Manuscript Award.
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