Anthony Warner is a professional chef and blogger. A regular contributor to New Scientist and The Pool, his blog has been featured in the Guardian, Mail on Sunday and other publications. In 2017, he was named on the Telegraph's Food Power List of tastemakers changing the way we eat and drink. He lives in Nottinghamshire, blogs at angry-chef.com and you can follow him @One_Angry_Chef.
‘An entertaining exposé of the ‘bad science’ behind food fads.’
*Sainsbury’s Magazine*
‘A terrific and…much-needed book: both heartfelt and thoughtful,
often funny and, above all, utterly convincing.’
*James Walton, Daily Telegraph*
‘One by one Warner demolishes popular food myths…this [is] a book
that will allow you to enjoy food with less guilt; it might even
save lives.’
*Guardian*
‘If you’ve ever wondered why kale, avocado toast and sweet potatoes
are ubiquitous, or if you tear your hair out over the
“clean-eating” fad, then the Angry Chef is your man.’
*The Sunday Times*
‘Funny and forensic.’
*Financial Times Summer Books 2017*
‘The Angry Chef deserves to be widely read. It covers all the bases
with aplomb. The world needs a popular science book to help people
tell the difference between science and opinion.’
*Spectator*
‘Warner’s dismantling of the faddists’ fads, their gullibility and
idiocy is precise, witty and more humane than I can find it in
myself to be.’
*Michael Bywater, Literary Review*
'As a restaurant critic, qualified chef and greedy person, I found
the book fascinating...this is a thoughtful, forensically
researched and referenced work on healthy eating and, more
importantly, it's entertaining.'
*Evening Standard*
‘This is an important book, and a good one. It’s ambitious and
well-researched and timely…Food science can be a dry topic, but
Warner manages to make it an entertaining one.’
*Spectator*
'Pragmatic, funny and most important of all, true.'
*Mail on Sunday*
‘Warner has simply and emphatically decided that the time has come
to expose and question the false assertions and bogus science
propounded by nutrition experts, dieticians and public-health gurus
who, given half a chance, would force-feed us exclusively on kale
smoothies, quinoa bowls, lemon water, green juices and coconut
oil.’
*The Times*
‘A tonic for those who’ve had their fill of the ‘clean-eating’
brigade.’
*Irish Independent*
‘Paleo, GAPS, alkaline, detox… so many diets, but do any of them
actually work? With scientific rigour and a generous helping of
expletives, Warner takes on the food fads one by one, and asks why
we’re so easily taken in by pseudoscience in the first place.’
*BBC Science Focus, 70 best science books you need to read
in 2021*
‘The health food industry has gone mad, but finally there has been
an awakening. The Angry Chef is at the forefront, spewing out facts
and exploding the wellness bloggers’ “theories” with rock solid
science.’
*Gizzi Erskine*
‘The popular understanding of nutrition is clouded by
superstitions, primitive intuitions, conspiracy theories, and old
spouses’ tales. This irreverent and intelligent exposé brings
sanity and good sense to one of life’s great pleasures.’
*Steven Pinker, Johnstone Professor of Psychology, Harvard
University, and author of How the Mind Works*
‘If it wasn’t for the fact that there is no God, I’d thank him for
bringing us the Angry Chef. In this brilliant book he
systematically demolishes every single piece of food-related
faddery, hack science, nutritional fakery and clean-eating cobblers
in a manner that should make every so-called “wellness” and
“nutrition” guru hang their heads in shame.’
*Jay Rayner, journalist and broadcaster*
‘A wonderfully bracing and funny tirade against the harm and
nonsense of food fads. If you’ve ever been tempted to go on “a
detox” or try clean eating, you need this book. Yes, Angry Chef is
angry, but he is also trying to get us back to the point beyond the
crazy “superfoods” and guilt where eating is actually a joy.’
*Bee Wilson, author of This Is Not A Diet Book and First
Bite*
‘Thank God for the outspoken, intelligent, well-informed Anthony
Warner. Someone had to say it (the Clean Gut cult is tosh) and
he does – forcefully, amusingly and, convincingly.’
*Prue Leith*
‘The Angry Chef provides a refreshing insight into the importance
of academic and scientific rigour in the interpretation and
communication of nutrition. I will reference examples from this
text when teaching both students and practitioners of nutrition and
dietetics about the fickle, unquestioning nonsense appearing online
and in the media.’
*Kevin Whelan, professor of dietetics, King’s College London*
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