Land of Milk and Honey by C Pam Zhang review - food, sex and morality in the end times

A private chef for the ultra-rich confronts the inequality of survival, in a sensual novel of ideas that asks difficult questions It's getting harder to see a difference between dystopian and realist fiction. Land of Milk and Honey, Zhang's second novel after the deservedly Booker-longlisted How Much of These Hills Is Gold, is set in a near future or alternative present in which smog has covered almost the whole planet, ending agriculture and causing global famine and mass extinction. The unname...