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‘My ultimate overpacked beach bite has to be a pilchard sandwich’—Read an excerpt from Pravasan Pillay’s offbeat new food memoir Curry and Bread

August 13, 2025August 13, 2025The JRB1 Comment

The JRB presents an excerpt from Curry and Bread, Pravasan Pillay’s new memoir. Curry and BreadPravasan PillayDye Hard Press, 2025…

‘I do not recall reading many novels that linger so pornographically over the matter of eating’—Wamuwi Mbao reviews Butter by Asako Yuzuki

October 18, 2024October 18, 2024Wamuwi MbaoLeave a Comment

Butter is keenly attuned to the many ways the private sphere runs on the disproportionate work of women while deliberately…

‘I am quite normal. I just wonder what JM Coetzee would taste like, slow-roasted, with tarragon.’—Read ‘The man who would be eaten’ by Rustum Kozain

March 5, 2020March 10, 2020Rustum Kozain1 Comment

The following piece was written in 2006, since when it has been languishing on the author’s blog. It was revived…