PositiveOpen Letters ReviewKnowledgeable and cockily erudite ... If a criticism is to be piped atop these explanations, it must be noted how akin they are to Malcolm Gladwell’s random, preference-led gobbets. Lunging from the brilliant to the flashily invalid ... All Consuming is a book for the gastronomically super-literate ... It’s one thing to broaden the public’s culinary horizons, it’s quite another to nuke their worlds with exotica ... Readers are certain to love Tandoh’s wry, subversive, zanily astute writing style ... It is in her smaller, more acidic put-downs where true entertainment can be found ... Throughout she contains this smirkful, cutting wisdom so well that the book isn’t pungent with cynicism, but is one still willing to satirise anything in the food industry ... It fascinates as much as it flummoxes, but best of all it allows a writerly talent to excel in her field without a calorie being counted.
