PositiveThe Irish Times...[a] seriously thought-provoking book ... Wilson deftly sketches four stages of the human diet ... Wilson is not snobbish about the delights of fast-food, the pleasures of a Big Mac over a piece of dried cod head ... the impact of technology, time poverty and loneliness is threaded through The Way We Eat Now ... Wilson deftly moves from the big picture to her own relationship with food ... She paints a picture of the staggering inequality where a Deliveroo biker can get a single chocolate crepe to the desk of a city trader on a whim while thousands of families in the same city are forced to use food banks. She is scathing about superfoods and clean eating, and less so about food substitutes like Soylent ... Wilson is hopeful for a future where the arc bends back in a healthier direction. For this reader the glaring gap in the book is the question of whether humans can get to that utopian stage five before the plenty is reversed by climate change, much of it caused by vast food systems marching across the globe.
