Yemisi Aribisala: Longthroat Memoirs

After spending the last couple of months hearing the voice of
Yemisi Aribisala introduce the best food books of 2021 in a
special series with the Andre Simon awards, this episode is all
about her book Longthroat Memoirs: Soups, Sex and
Nigerian Taste Buds.


It won the Andre Simon’s John Avery award in 2016, possibly
because of its use of food to prod under the skin of Nigerian
life and poke at the politics and culture of her homeland. But in
a country which doesn’t really like to talk about what they’re
eating, Gilly finds a much more complex relationship, not just
with food but with language and expression of pleasure.


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