Loved and lost

G2 columnist Dina Rabinovitch, who died yesterday aged 44, was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004. As the cancer progressed - and she underwent increasingly experimental treatment - she wrote with honesty, courage and humour about the good times and the bad. Here, in extracts from her columns, we chart her journey from the shock of that first day to the final thoughts she shared about her adored family.

Delicious reading

In Kate Colquhoun's Taste: The Story of Britain Through Its Cooking, an excellent history of the nation's appetites is to be savoured - with caution, says Paul Levy.

Read my labels

Veronica Horwell gorges on Dana Thomas' Deluxe, an investigation into the modern attitude to luxury.

Flab grab

Raj Patel illuminates the failures of the global food system in Stuffed and Starved, says Felicity Lawrence.

A good feed

On reading John Dickie's Delizia! and Paul Richardson's A Late Dinner, Tom Jaine finds simple peasant fare is not all it's cracked up to be in a culinary tour of Europe.

Home ground

Kathryn Hughes finds that Animal, Vegetable, Miracle - Barbara Kingsolver's chronicle of living off the land - is saved from being preachy by glorious wit.