Ruby Tandoh’s New Book Makes the Case That We Have Too Many Recipes Already

When Ruby Tandoh first embarked on the project that would become her new book, All Consuming, she envisioned it with the broadest scope possible: an authoritative tome about “the whole of appetite — physiological, evolutionary, social, you name it,” she says. “I think this came from a really naive desire at the time to create something that would be beyond the trend cycle.” The problem, though, was that she hated it. “There came a point where I had to ask: What am I eating? What am I facing when I open my phone? What food am I seeing?” Tandoh says.…