Jimi Famurewa

Picky (eBook, ePUB)

From fussy child to professional gourmet

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Food is never just food. It is freighted with our upbringings, our heritage and our sense of self. It carries memories, both happy and sad; it transports and it anchors.

Jimi Famurewa spends his days hunting out the very best food London has to offer. But as a child, he hid gobbets of mash in his pocket at school, refused all vegetables and looked forward to Happy Meals in the back of a steamed-up car after late night football practice. He spent weekends in crowded flats at parties, watching his family preserve their Nigerian roots through jollof and suya, as well as grow new shoots through American delights like Aunt Jemima's pancake syrup, furtively hidden in suitcases.

With enough fast-food nostalgia to satisfied even the most fat-hardened foodie arteries as well as glorious dollops of nostalgia, Picky is a hymn to the gleam of the golden arches and the soft shine of worn formica as well as opulent marble and tweezered micro leaves. It is a generous, warm look at a life built around food: what it can mean, what it can stand for, and why you should always pay attention to what someone is eating.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hodder & Stoughton
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781399739559
• Artikelnr.: 73420761

Autorenporträt

Jimi Famurewa is a British-Nigerian author, broadcaster and freelance journalist. His writing has appeared in the Guardian, Wired, GQ, Empire, Observer Food Monthly and Time Out London. He is the restaurant critic for the Evening Standard, regular guest judge on the BBC One series MasterChef and was also one of the lead judges on Channel 4's The Great Cookbook Challenge with Jamie Oliver. He is the host of the award-winning culture and heritage podcast Where's Home Really? and, in 2021, he won Restaurant Writer of the Year at both the Fortnum & Mason Awards and the Guild of Food Writers Awards. He lives in south-east London with his family.