Peasant chic – with Rosanna McLaughlin

“What is this fantasy of hardship and labour endemic to those parts of the city catering to the rise of affluence, the empire of the flat-whites, draining neighbourhoods of colour, and leaving in their wake a mild-mannered army dressed in Breton stripes and vintage labouring apparel? What is this love of the workshop, the jailhouse, the farm, and the forces, which has caused a swathe of the population to tether their identities to the gates of histories and industries that they will never enter? I give to you, the superlative product of middle-class cognitive dissonance, the double-tracker.”
So writes Rosanna McLaughlin in her brilliant little book ‘Double Tracking’ (carcanet.co.uk/9780995705227/double-tracking). In this episode we discuss what this idea is, and how it plays out in our food culture.
Rosanna’s other work includes the essay ‘Against Morality’ (frieze.com/article/rosanna-mclaughlin-against-…) and a novel ‘Sinkhole: Three Crimes (montezpress.com/catalogue/books/sinkhole-three…)’.

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