Hunger Like a Thirst: From Food Stamps to Fine Dining, a Restaurant Critic Finds Her Place at the Table

Author:   Besha Rodell
Publisher:   Castle Point Books
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9781250807120


Pages:   272
Publication Date:   16 June 2025
Format:   Hardback
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Hunger Like a Thirst: From Food Stamps to Fine Dining, a Restaurant Critic Finds Her Place at the Table


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Author:   Besha Rodell
Publisher:   Castle Point Books
Imprint:   Castle Point Books
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.300kg
ISBN:  

9781250807120


ISBN 10:   1250807123
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   16 June 2025
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order   Availability explained
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""Beautifully written, deeply moving, and a fascinating social document."" --Nigella Lawson ""This hearty, heartfelt missive will appeal to anyone who likes to wax poetic about a memorable meal."" --Publishers Weekly ""A meld of autobiography and culinary memoir with meat on its bones... It is Rodell's candor, her gift for asking so many savory, enlightening questions, that rewards the reader's palate. Structured like a good meal, or a good review, rendering a superb memoir."" --Kirkus ""Rodell delves into the glory years of making her bones as a female food writer in the male-dominated, early aughts restaurant industry... Her writing is fresh, biting and accessible. And her food descriptions are mouthwatering and luscious."" --The Atlanta Journal-Constitution


""This hearty, heartfelt missive will appeal to anyone who likes to wax poetic about a memorable meal."" --Publishers Weekly ""A meld of autobiography and culinary memoir with meat on its bones... It is Rodell's candor, her gift for asking so many savory, enlightening questions, that rewards the reader's palate. Structured like a good meal, or a good review, rendering a superb memoir."" --Kirkus


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Besha Rodell is a James Beard Award-winning food writer, editor and restaurant critic who has been obsessed with eating out since she was a child. Born in Australia, in a bungalow on a farm her father dubbed ""Narnia,"" she moved to the United States as a teenager. She has been writing professionally for more than two decades, and her work has appeared in numerous publications including The New York Times, Food & Wine, Saveur, Bon Appetit, Travel & Leisure, PUNCH, Eater, Gravy, and many others. She was the restaurant critic at LA Weekly, and was a critic and columnist for The New York Times - she is still a regular contributor. In 2019 she was tapped by Food & Wine magazine to be their global critic, traveling the world solo to pick the world's best restaurants for an annual list. She is currently the chief restaurant critic at The Age, Melbourne, Australia's daily newspaper. Besha moved back to Australia in 2017, and lives in Melbourne with her husband Ryan, her parrot Chobi, and a rotating menagerie of foster cats.

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