The Book — written in public

Photograph: the worn sage-green cover of La France Touristique et Gastronomique, Éditions de France, Paris, laid flat — a line-drawn hilltop village and stone bridge on the back, and on the front a yellow diamond with a map of France and a compass star. — Prologue — photographed for this book, never stock, never reused.

Ch. 00♪ Audio available

Before the Lock Screen

Prologue · Movement I — The Earth · Free, always

A plate no longer only answers hunger. Increasingly, it answers identity.

Before the phone became the table, food belonged more fully to time and place.

You learnt what to eat from where you were. From your family, first of all. From whoever cooked, or didn’t. From what turned up on the table with enough regularity to become normal, and from what you could afford.

Hear where it goes — Chapter 01

The argument, built
in the open.

Before the Lock Screen

You Photographed Dinner Before You Ate It

The argument, builtin the open.

Before the Lock Screen

You Photographed Dinner Before You Ate It

The argument, built
in the open.