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Bristol writer shortlisted in food book award
Bristol writer Julian Baggini has been shortlisted in the annual André Simon Food & Drink Book Awards for his book The Virtues of the Table.
Baggini writes that how we eat, farm and shop for food is not only a matter of taste. Our choices regarding what we eat involve every essential aspect of our human nature: the animal, the sensuous, the social, the cultural, the creative, the emotional and the intellectual.
The philosopher also asks questions like ‘should we take media advice on salt with a pinch of salt? And can food be more virtuous, more inherently good, than art?
The awards will be presented at a reception at the Goring Hotel in London in March. Previous winners include Michel Roux, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Nigel Slater and Rick Stein.
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