So many comments in this comment section about obesity, so I'd just like to say - I'm fat now because I have a somewhat disordered relationship with eating, but the most unhealthy my diet has ever been was when I was living off packets of jelly babies and nothing else, but not a single person, no doctor, showed concern for my health because that sort of disordered eating left me relatively slim. They care now because my disordered eating habits make me fat, but they didn't care when my relationship with food was at its worst, and I was getting NOTHING nutritionally out of my food, because I was thin. And that's a massive freaking problem.

A fun conversation and needed conversation and a good topic switch for Novara. My only critique would be that you were both perhaps a little too dismissive about people not eating, like these people do exist and people have eating disorders which can be very serious so at least an acknowledgement of that within the discussion was missing i think

I really struggle to find the motivation to eat and I'm one of the people who forgets to eat quite regularly. It's just a massive chore to me

Fascinating multilayered subject!  Great to see Ash back in the studio, & thanks Novara!

i love a good slap up meal - a huge Christmas dinner , full English breakfast - mash and sausages ala Desperate Dan

Thanks to all involved. Really enjoyed that. Like a little incidental banquet of humanity sprinkled with discourse.

Between this and the Gary (Stevenson??) interview, you guys are really nailing it with these interviews at the moment!

Having survived a serious liver disease and the associated malnutrition I am grateful for the chance to eat a meal, any meal. Millions starve while tonnes of food go to landfill.

I am not even halfway through watching this and there are so many excellent points. I found the point about not smelling food any more really interesting, during my work at a community kitchen you would have people come in to the building for various reasons and some of them would complain about the lingering smell of food. I have friends who complain about open plan living as cooking smells linger. It's interesting to me that we have become divorced from the joy of food, which includes smelling the food, cooking smells being in a building where food is literally cooked and served seems almost offensive to people.

I wonder if there will ever be a true recognition of the fact that eating meat means that people are in poorly paid jobs that literally devalue life. There are plenty of studies that show that working in slaughter houses is evidentially connected with serious psychological disregard for life and comfort with violence by necessity. The necessity is to compartmentalise doing a job of killing beings every day. Also, being cruel to animals, as obviously slaughter is, is strongly connected with domestic abuse.

As a recently diagnosed diabetic all I find these days are lists of stuff I cannae eat. Also a presumption that I want to lose weight, whereas the diabetes itself wis causing weight loss (the reason I went to the GP in the first place).
Nae advice seems available for somebody like me who is trying to keep the disease at bay, but maintain my weight. Especially where to find food that is good for me in yir average UK supermarket.

What a great interview, so much "food" for thought (Pardon the pun). Food for the brain. Thank You Novara

I forget to eat all the time, I need prompts to. I love eating, but it's so easy to miss meals when you have ADHD.

Great conversation,thank you.Its hard to believe Ash ever has any self loathing tendencies,she hides them very well.
Sorry don't mean for that to sound bad but you always seem supremely confident about knowing exactly what you think and expressing your point of view so unequivocally.

There's a party in my mouth, and class consciousness is invited. This was an interesting discussion, which feels a bit leftfield as a subject, until you realise food - in 2022 - is a fundamental signifier of the capitalist structure we're in. In many ways, it's weird that food hasn't been discussed on a class level much, much earlier.

Very good video with a lot of interesting points bought up.

Love the Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace reference from Ash!

Thank you so much for the interview, as a dyslexic I don't need to read the book now.

Thank you. This has been very constructive.

I missed this at the time but it set me thinking. I ate what most people would consider a healthy diet for more than 60 years, but it was all for nothing because of my genetic inheritance. That took me back more than 30 years to when I worked at the Institute of Food Research. At that time, David Southgate was head of Nutrition Diet and Health at Norwich, the department that studied the relationship between diet and health from cradle to grave. One day when I was with him, I asked what he thought of the advice about what is good for us and what is not, and he just said, "We all have to die of something."

'Acts of Desperation' by Megan Nolan is a great book that flips some of tropes mentioned in this video regarding Sally Rooney novels. Would recommend!