The Essay: My Life in Food

RADIO 3, 10.45PM

This week’s topic on The

Essay is a tasty late-night feast telling the story of a life through food. Joanna Robertson relates her lifelong fascination with the romanticism of food. Tonight she is in Rome welcoming the birth of her

first baby, along with well-wishers far beyond her immediate relatives – the neighbourhood’s grocers, restaurant owners and the local bakery become a collective of godparents. Also this week, the story encompasses Robertson’s struggle with an eating disorder and decision to train as a chef.