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First Eat
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“I love food” Nakkiah Lui says, and in the next breath whispers “so give us back our land”. In First Eat, a confrontational, raw and highly personal exploration of food politics, power and body sovereignty, Nakkiah Lui asks how our meals would look different if First Nations people owned the land from which the food came. First Eat is about more than just food, it’s an aural feast for a rich future.
Hosted and Co-Produced by Nakkiah Lui.
Written and Produced by Nicola Harvey
Guest host is Miranda Tapsell
‘We Are Warriors’ Written by C. Tasker / M. Masella / W. Tafa / C. Webster. Published by Concord Music Publishing New Zealand Ltd. Special thanks Sony Music Publishing.
Archival material sourced from Special Broadcasting Service, Australia.
Thanks to Create NSW for early development support.
First Eat is an Audible Original
“I love food” Nakkiah Lui says, and in the next breath whispers “so give us back our land”. In First Eat, a confrontational, raw and highly personal exploration of food politics, power and body sovereignty, Nakkiah Lui asks how our meals would look different if First Nations people owned the land from which the food came. First Eat is about more than just food, it’s an aural feast for a rich future.
Hosted and Co-Produced by Nakkiah Lui.
Written and Produced by Nicola Harvey
Guest host is Miranda Tapsell
‘We Are Warriors’ Written by C. Tasker / M. Masella / W. Tafa / C. Webster. Published by Concord Music Publishing New Zealand Ltd. Special thanks Sony Music Publishing.
Archival material sourced from Special Broadcasting Service, Australia.
Thanks to Create NSW for early development support.
First Eat is an Audible Original
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Published June 22, 2023
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December 2, 2024
This was a fascinating listen. Worth way more stars than the average rating on here.
Lots of food for thought in this wide ranging series. The author asks a series of important questions about food, its availability, economic privilege, where food comes from and who controls it. The politics and power of food. Lui has done a great job interrogating these questions and doesn’t offer up easy answers.
If conversations around decolonisation, land back, racism, slavery and its economic consequences are new to you (especially if your skin is white), then I can see how it would be easy to get offended. But colonisation, white supremacy and their ongoing effects *are* offensive and need to be reckoned with.
There are some spots the audio was muddled and hard to make out what was happening, but they are brief and do not detract from the overall piece. Highly recommend.
Lots of food for thought in this wide ranging series. The author asks a series of important questions about food, its availability, economic privilege, where food comes from and who controls it. The politics and power of food. Lui has done a great job interrogating these questions and doesn’t offer up easy answers.
If conversations around decolonisation, land back, racism, slavery and its economic consequences are new to you (especially if your skin is white), then I can see how it would be easy to get offended. But colonisation, white supremacy and their ongoing effects *are* offensive and need to be reckoned with.
There are some spots the audio was muddled and hard to make out what was happening, but they are brief and do not detract from the overall piece. Highly recommend.
November 19, 2025
Very much a podcast and not an audiobook in podcast format, but I still very much enjoyed this. I'm hoping that this does eventually end up being turned into a formal book though.
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