Be My Guest: Reflections on Food, Community and the Meaning of Generosity

Basil, Priya

ISBN 10: 1786898497 / ISBN 13: 9781786898494

Published by Canongate Books, 2019

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Be My Guest: Reflections on Food, Community and the Meaning of Generosity
• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1786898497
• ISBN 13: 9781786898494
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

The dinner table, among friends, is where the best conversations take place - talk about the world, religion, politics, culture and cooking. In the same way, Be My Guest is a conversation about all those things, mediated through the medium of shared food.

We live in a world where some have too much and others not enough, where immigrants and refugees are both welcomed and vilified, and where most of us spend less and less time cooking and eating together. Priya Basil invites us to explore the meaning and limits of hospitality today, and in doing so makes a passionate plea for a kinder, more welcoming realisation that we have more in common than divides us.

About the Author

Priya Basil was born in London to a family with Indian roots and grew up in Kenya. She is an author and essay-writer whose work has been nominated for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, the Dylan Thomas Prize and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. She is the co-founder of Authors for Peace, a political platform for writers and artists. She lives in Berlin. priyabasil.com