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The Times Food Book of the Year.A soul-searching memoir for foodies everywhere. Let award-winning food writer Clare Finney take you on a passionate exploration of food and love. From family feasts to comfort food, first dates to office cake; how does what we eat define us, and the relationships we have with others? Finney investigates the role that food plays in modern society, exploring how eating unites us in varied ways throughout our lives. She discusses her own childhood spent in her grandmother's hotel kitchen. She talks about the meals and recipes that have shaped the person she is today. Think of the dance of culinary courtship entailed in dating. Or the funeral foods that remind us of the connections between life and death, Finney examines the power of food and drink to attract, bind and define us-and of course, its power to divide and repel. In this insightful memoir, get access to: Fourteen easy-to-follow meaningful recipes A relatable exploration of what food means in life, love and beyond No-holds-barred look into the world of gastronomy and food writing Touching memories from Finney's own childhood and life Packed with transformative stories from the heart, this book may just change your relationship with food, dining and mealtimes. At a time when our relationship towards what, when and where we eat has become increasingly complicated, Hungry Heart is a feast. It's an honest, heart-warming account of humans breaking bread together and what that really means.

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'Warm and lovely, but gently scholarly and greatly improving to the soul'  -- Tim Hayward * Financial Times *

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Clare Finney is an award-winning food writer - Fortnum and Mason Food Writer of the Year 2019 - and author of The Female Chef, which won Fortnum and Mason's Debut Food Book Award in 2022. Born in London in 1988 and unhappily educated at an all-girls' school, she spent large stretches of the school holidays in her grandparents' large hotel kitchen on the south coast. There, food and love were inextricable; yet it wasn't until after university that she fell in love with food writing itself, whilst working for Borough Market's magazine. Today, her food journalism appears regularly in The Guardian, The Evening Standard, delicious magazine, Vogue, The Telegraph and iPaper, amongst many other titles. She writes about sustainability, food and relationships, producers, food and feminism, trends in food culture, and cheese.

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