GBBO and eating disorders
May. 7th, 2023 05:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
walkitoutI don’t and never have watched GBBO. I have very, very, very limited awareness of its content, other than that it involves baking and is a competition. I recently bought (for $1.99, and I’m really regretting the purchase) Ruby Tandoh’s _Cook as you are_, and I kept having questions about who the target audience is for this book (I’m pretty sure it’s not me!) and one way to try to get an answer to that question is to better understand who the author is. The author had (has?) (an) eating disorder(s) and participated in GBBO in their younger years. Also, the author is/was very active on Twitter and elsewhere and threw down during the height of the namecalling years. I don’t know if it helps answer my question, altho all that does confirm that the target audience is definitely Not Me.
Anyway. I then had a question. Is eating disorder + participating in GBBO a normal combination?
Let’s google!
Ruby Tandoh
Steph Blackwell
John Whaite
Also, there was a huge Thing involving Prue Leith, one of the judges, making comments that were regarded as potentially triggering of people with eating disorders. Further, there are some things out there in which people with a history of disordered eating got better by watching and baking along with GBBO and/or who celebrated their recovery by watching and baking along with GBBO.
I don’t know what to say? I mean, I tend not to watch … anything, but I _really_ tend not to watch cooking shows, because I just find the put it in the oven and immediately take out the pre-cooked one so impossible to deal with. (TikTok cooking does not bother me nearly as much, also, it is shorter.) Worse, baking nearly always has milk products in it, and substituting around the milk products in most baking recipes is a pointless exercise. I understand that GBBO has been showing whole grain recipes, so, yay to that?
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Anyway. I then had a question. Is eating disorder + participating in GBBO a normal combination?
Let’s google!
Ruby Tandoh
Steph Blackwell
John Whaite
Also, there was a huge Thing involving Prue Leith, one of the judges, making comments that were regarded as potentially triggering of people with eating disorders. Further, there are some things out there in which people with a history of disordered eating got better by watching and baking along with GBBO and/or who celebrated their recovery by watching and baking along with GBBO.
I don’t know what to say? I mean, I tend not to watch … anything, but I _really_ tend not to watch cooking shows, because I just find the put it in the oven and immediately take out the pre-cooked one so impossible to deal with. (TikTok cooking does not bother me nearly as much, also, it is shorter.) Worse, baking nearly always has milk products in it, and substituting around the milk products in most baking recipes is a pointless exercise. I understand that GBBO has been showing whole grain recipes, so, yay to that?
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