Yemisi Aribisala: Longthroat Memoirs
Cooking the Books with Gilly Smith
English - March 10, 2022 06:00 - 28 minutes - 23.2 MBArts Fiction food books cooking authors reading foodwriting climate sustainability Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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After spending the last couple of months hearing the voice of Yemisi Aribisala introduce the best food books of 2021 in a special series with the Andre Simon awards, this episode is all about her book Longthroat Memoirs: Soups, Sex and Nigerian Taste Buds.
It won the Andre Simon’s John Avery award in 2016, possibly because of its use of food to prod under the skin of Nigerian life and poke at the politics and culture of her homeland. But in a country which doesn’t really like to talk about what they’re eating, Gilly finds a much more complex relationship, not just with food but with language and expression of pleasure.
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