Tell Me How You Eat

Closed, opens tomorrow 11amIndependent shop in FremontDirections

Available from Book Larder when we last checked. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

An intimate and expansive exploration of how and why we eat, and the relationship between food and empowerment, through the historic feasts and fasts of radicals and tyrants. Inspired by writer Amber Husain’s unorthodox route to healing from anorexia, Tell Me How You Eat examines not just how society views the refusal to eat, but how we understand the meaning and power of food. Suspecting that the standard courses of treatment—as disempowering as they are ineffective—might in fact be part of the