Eating questions

There are gaps on the shelves, queues snaking round supermarket car parks, tips on how to use up leftovers, and arguments over stockpiling; food is a bigger issue than it’s been for a long time.

Comment Sarah Allen

We’ve always talked about food in our house (from laughing at my burnt sausages to praising my son’s curries), but in these days of insecurity I’ve started to wonder if we talk about food a lot, but hardly ever about eating. Recipes, flavours and tastes are easy to talk about, but appetite, habits and diet seem almost taboo. Why is it that we avoid discussing something we all do every day?