The Unbearable Lightness of Being a Prawn Cracker

The Unbearable Lightness of Being a Prawn Cracker is a collection of Will Self's Real Meals column for the New Statesman. Covering such things as London Cheesecake, Pizza Express, ready meals and fast food cuisine. The title is a play on Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being a Prawn Cracker
AuthorWill Self
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
SeriesPenguin Specials
GenreNovel
PublisherPenguin
Publication date
United Kingdom
01 February 2012
Pages50pp
ISBN9780241962619

Content

The collection of columns covers a variety of non-traditional culinary experiences to provide a counterpoint to the more idealistic style of food reviewing. Self's stated aim for the column was as follows:

Most food writing and restaurant criticism is concerned with the ideal, with how by cooking this, or dining there, you can somehow ingurgitate a new - or at any rate improved - social, aesthetic and even spiritual persona. I aimed to turn this proposition on its head, and instead of commenting on where and what people would ideally like to eat I would consider where and what they actually did: the ready meals, buffet snacks and - most importantly - fast food that millions of Britons chomp upon in the go-round of their often hurried and dyspeptic lives.[1]

Reviews

Benedicte Page writing for The Guardian observed...

"...it sees Self take an entertaining trip around the less celebrated of our eateries while dissecting his own fast-food addictions."[2]

gollark: Cell network? Has anyone got software for that... other than rednet?
gollark: https://pastebin.com/L0ZKLBRG
gollark: Oh, I made that ages ago.
gollark: What would be?
gollark: Hmm, one must wonder if you could just set up an ender modem chat system and sidestep the whole limited range thing.

References
  1. http://will-self.com/2012/02/08/the-unbearable-lightness-of-being-a-prawn-cracker-2/
  2. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/feb/23/ebooks-roundup-satires-serials-shorts
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