Louise Gray – författare

WINNER OF TWO 2017 GUILD OF FOOD WRITERS AWARDS: BEST FOOD BOOK AWARD AND THE CAMPAIGNING AND INVESTIGATIVE FOOD WORK AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 FORTNUM & MASON FOOD BOOK OF THE YEAR A BBC RADIO 4 FOOD PROGRAMME BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016We should all know exactly where our meat comes from. But what if you took this modern-day maxim to its logical conclusion and only ate animals you killed yourself?Louise Gray decides to be an ethical carnivore and learn to stalk, shoot and fish. Starting small, Louise shucks oysters and catches a trout. As she begins to reconnect with nature, she befriends countrymen and women who can teach her to shoot pigeons, rabbits and red deer.Louise begins to look into how meat is processed, including the beef in our burgers, cheap chicken, supermarket bacon and farmed fish. She investigates halal slaughter and visits abattoirs to ask whether new technology can make eating meat more humane.Delving into alternative food cultures, Louise finds herself sourcing roadkill and cooking a squirrel stir-fry, and she explores eating other sources of protein like in vitro meat, insects and plant-based options. With the global demand for meat growing, Louise argues that eating less meat should be an essential part of fighting climate change for all of us.Her writing on nature, food and the environment is full of humour, while never shying from the hard facts. Louise gets to the heart of modern anxieties about where our meat comes from, asking an important question for our time – is it possible to be an ethical carnivore?

WINNER OF TWO 2017 GUILD OF FOOD WRITERS AWARDS: BEST FOOD BOOK AWARD AND THE CAMPAIGNING AND INVESTIGATIVE FOOD WORK AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 FORTNUM & MASON FOOD BOOK OF THE YEAR A BBC RADIO 4 FOOD PROGRAMME BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016We should all know exactly where our meat comes from. But what if you took this modern-day maxim to its logical conclusion and only ate animals you killed yourself?Louise Gray decides to be an ethical carnivore and learn to stalk, shoot and fish. Starting small, Louise shucks oysters and catches a trout. As she begins to reconnect with nature, she befriends countrymen and women who can teach her to shoot pigeons, rabbits and red deer.Louise begins to look into how meat is processed, including the beef in our burgers, cheap chicken, supermarket bacon and farmed fish. She investigates halal slaughter and visits abattoirs to ask whether new technology can make eating meat more humane.Delving into alternative food cultures, Louise finds herself sourcing roadkill and cooking a squirrel stir-fry, and she explores eating other sources of protein like in vitro meat, insects and plant-based options. With the global demand for meat growing, Louise argues that eating less meat should be an essential part of fighting climate change for all of us.Her writing on nature, food and the environment is full of humour, while never shying from the hard facts. Louise gets to the heart of modern anxieties about where our meat comes from, asking an important question for our time – is it possible to be an ethical carnivore?

WINNER OF THE GUILD OF FOOD WRITERS INVESTIGATIVE FOOD WORK AWARD 2024JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION BOOK AWARDS NOMINEE 2024SHORTLISTED FOR SCOTLAND''S NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS 2023A TIMES ENVIRONMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023''This is fantastic'' THE TIMES''Deeply relatable'' SPECTATOR''Rigorous, incisive, warm and brave'' LUCY JONES''Essential reading for anyone that eats'' JAKE FIENNES''Universally urgent. Everyone should read it.'' CAROLINE EDEN-The food stories behind your favourite fruits and vegetables.Have you ever wondered who picked your Fairtrade banana or how far your green beans travelled to reach your plate?We are all part of a complex food system. Trying to make sense of it, environmental journalist Louise Gray tracks the stories of our five-a-day, from farm to fruit bowl, and discovers the impact that growing fruits and vegetables has on the planet. Visiting farms, interviewing scientists and trying to grow her own, she asks important questions to dig up the dirt on familiar items in our shopping baskets. Are plant proteins as good for us as meat proteins? Why can we buy so-called ''seasonal'' fruits like strawberries all year round? And is the symbol of clean eating, the avocado, fuelling the climate crisis?As pressure grows to share our healthy, environmentally friendly lives on social media, Avocado Anxiety is also a personal story of motherhood and the realisation that nothing is ever perfect.

WINNER OF THE GUILD OF FOOD WRITERS INVESTIGATIVE FOOD WORK AWARD 2024JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION BOOK AWARDS NOMINEE 2024SHORTLISTED FOR SCOTLAND'S NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS 2023A TIMES ENVIRONMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023‘This is fantastic’ THE TIMES‘Deeply relatable’ SPECTATOR‘Rigorous, incisive, warm and brave’ LUCY JONES‘Essential reading for anyone that eats’ JAKE FIENNES‘Universally urgent. Everyone should read it.’ CAROLINE EDEN-The food stories behind your favourite fruits and vegetables.Have you ever wondered who picked your Fairtrade banana or how far your green beans travelled to reach your plate?We are all part of a complex food system. Trying to make sense of it, environmental journalist Louise Gray tracks the stories of our five-a-day, from farm to fruit bowl, and discovers the impact that growing fruits and vegetables has on the planet. Visiting farms, interviewing scientists and trying to grow her own, she asks important questions to dig up the dirt on familiar items in our shopping baskets. Are plant proteins as good for us as meat proteins? Why can we buy so-called ‘seasonal’ fruits like strawberries all year round? And is the symbol of clean eating, the avocado, fuelling the climate crisis?As pressure grows to share our healthy, environmentally friendly lives on social media, Avocado Anxiety is also a personal story of motherhood and the realisation that nothing is ever perfect.

WINNER OF THE GUILD OF FOOD WRITERS INVESTIGATIVE FOOD WORK AWARD 2024JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION BOOK AWARDS NOMINEE 2024SHORTLISTED FOR SCOTLAND''S NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS 2023A TIMES ENVIRONMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023''This is fantastic'' THE TIMES''Deeply relatable'' SPECTATOR''Rigorous, incisive, warm and brave'' LUCY JONES''Essential reading for anyone that eats'' JAKE FIENNES''Universally urgent. Everyone should read it.'' CAROLINE EDEN-The food stories behind your favourite fruits and vegetables.Have you ever wondered who picked your Fairtrade banana or how far your green beans travelled to reach your plate?We are all part of a complex food system. Trying to make sense of it, environmental journalist Louise Gray tracks the stories of our five-a-day, from farm to fruit bowl, and discovers the impact that growing fruits and vegetables has on the planet. Visiting farms, interviewing scientists and trying to grow her own, she asks important questions to dig up the dirt on familiar items in our shopping baskets. Are plant proteins as good for us as meat proteins? Why can we buy so-called ''seasonal'' fruits like strawberries all year round? And is the symbol of clean eating, the avocado, fuelling the climate crisis?As pressure grows to share our healthy, environmentally friendly lives on social media, Avocado Anxiety is also a personal story of motherhood and the realisation that nothing is ever perfect.

Present reality is transfigured when it encounters another world in this one, disseminating the miraculous in the ordinary every day to effect a process of limitless transformation and possibility. Here is living witness to the bounty of a God who is alive and ever-present in the universe and infinitely available to all, Christian or not. In all his grandeur he appears to the most ordinary, not just the giants of the faith, in his commitment of inextricability from the human race whom he calls beloved. Cross-pollinating the here and now with the extraordinary God of the Old and New Testaments, this chronicle marries memoir and academic research effortlessly.The capacity of God to do absolutely anything at any time for anyone without blowing his own trumpet, both masks and marks the power and extent of his love to improve human circumstances. Over a lifetime of difficulties, dreams, visions, miracles, and doctoral research on God as love itself, the author joins Job whose response to God after a prolonged encounter is, "I know that you can do anything, and no one can stop you" (Job 42:1).

A sweet and gentle story about sisters, trust, parrots, disappearing . . . and doing the right thing. Eight-year-old Izzy is more curious, playful and clumsy than her serious, grown-up sister Carrie. In fact Izzy is much more like Gran, an eccentric scientist who has a house full of weird and wonderful pets. But when one of Gran's experiments backfires, Izzy discovers that she has the ability to become invisible! That is, unless Perky the parrot is perched on her shoulder, or she has one of his feathers safely stowed in her pocket. Yikes!While Gran searches for an antidote, Izzy explores her invisibility - to her and Perky's amusement - but Mum, Dad and Carrie aren't impressed. Can Izzy prove that she is using her invisibility to help those around her, and regain her sister's trust?

A sweet and gentle story about sisters, trust, parrots, disappearing . . . and doing the right thing. Eight-year-old Izzy is more curious, playful and clumsy than her serious, grown-up sister Carrie. In fact Izzy is much more like Gran, an eccentric scientist who has a house full of weird and wonderful pets. But when one of Gran''s experiments backfires, Izzy discovers that she has the ability to become invisible! That is, unless Perky the parrot is perched on her shoulder, or she has one of his feathers safely stowed in her pocket. Yikes!While Gran searches for an antidote, Izzy explores her invisibility - to her and Perky''s amusement - but Mum, Dad and Carrie aren''t impressed. Can Izzy prove that she is using her invisibility to help those around her, and regain her sister''s trust?