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We've already had some really great messages.

Osama wrote in to talk about how the housing crisis had forced them to move to a country with rent controls.

And someone else suggested that the real political challenge of the housing crisis

is how to decentralize Britain away from London.

We've also had many other great messages. We do read them all. Thank you so much for

writing. But I do regret to inform you that we're not going to solve our London

Centricity in this episode. That's FM at navigator.com. Thanks for listening. Hello and welcome to Navarro FM. My name is Eleanor Penny. What we eat, where we eat and who we eat with can tell us a lot about the texture of our lives, how we answer the fundamentally political

questions around how we live together. But so much of food writing ignores those

questions of who makes the food that sustains us, who grows it, who owns the land and who profits.

A standard restaurant review might keep you in the loop about a new small plate's hole in the wall in a gentrifying part of town, but it probably

won't tell you about the real history of its food, the lives of its workers, or the political

and social relationships that make its existence possible.

The book London Feeds itself, recently republished by Fitzc Geraldo Editions, is trying to change

that narrative, to rethink what food writing can do.

Travelling from community halls to churches to cantines,

from the docklands of East London to suburban shopping centres,

to the

Caffes of the North Circular. This collection of essays

examines how communities across the city sustain themselves

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