So it took me a bit to get into this book. I did by the third chapter but it was a slow read. I didn’t agree with everything the author put out there but that is always the case. It was nice to read someone else’s take on the world we are all experiencing.

Hungry is a decidedly informative and thought-provoking book. The book is well-written and expertly composed. This book explores “foodie” culture and our physical, spiritual, and emotional hunger. These are salient issues I was eager to learn more about. I personally would have appreciated a more engaging and conversational style. Having said that, the book delivers on its promise to fully explore what it is we currently hunger for and what it is we are getting.

Avocado toast. Artisan beer. Foodstagram.

What drives our obsession of food? Is it mere hunger? Are are we looking for something more intricate?

In an enjoyable and intriguing read, Eve Turow-Paul has assembled facts on global food trends, blended them with sociological facts, and attempted to provide us with answers to questions around how we as people manage the concept of food: what makes us tick, and why. Hungry is an attempt to answering basic questions about our behavior around food, and it's done in a very interesting and enjoyable way.

Really enjoyed this book. Given the food culture that we live in this book did a great job of hitting on some really great points. Overall great read.

Interesting read, though there are some formatting issues on the Kindle version. I’ll recommend to food-loving friends.

This is not your typical. If you are looking for food or diet recipes, you will not want to read this. You still should anyway because it is filled with food statistics and the foodie craze. Some of the insights and point of view of author was quite funny, although that wasn't the main point of the book. I don't know how research she did for this book or it was all by experiences as foodie, but it was detailed. 

There were some early pages about certain ages spending more money on expensive than they could afford, and this was repeated a few times throughout; a little off putting. I just had to remind myself that most of these experiences and opinions were her own that she was trying to share. All in all, a decent about what it means to be a foodie.

Thanks to NetGalley, Eve Turow-Paul and the publisher for an ARC in exchange for an review. The opinions of this review are all my own.

Although I haven't finished this book (yet!) I'm reviewing it, and giving it the rating that I have, because the formatting is so bad, that it makes this book difficult, if not IMPOSSIBLE to read & follow, with random breaks in paragraphs and one letter of a word on one line, and then the rest of the word on another line, and even incomplete sentences that end abruptly, and continue without explanation a paragraph or page or two later!

If this "Hungry" read like an organized book, then I would DEFINITELY have given it 5 stars. I mean, I get that this is a "galley" copy, an uncorrected proof version of the book. But the amount of formatting issues and other problems has made it virtually UNREADABLE!

In all honesty, even before I started reading this book, I was hoping (and really wanted) to give it a good rating. Especially since, I really related to the subject matter, and in some/many ways, would be considered a "foodie" like those referenced in this book, as I am very interested in & fan of organic food/living, the "farm to table" or "farm to fork" movement, and similar beliefs.,

But this book is in such dire need of proofreading & editing that I am struggling to get through it. 

That being said, I did like the content (of what I could get through, at least) enough that I'll most likely get it when it is available in a completed version,  and hopefully the formatting will have been corrected by then!

The formatting of this book made it quite difficult to follow. However, it was an interesting read, full of facts and figures. It’s mainly based on USA figures and habits, but don’t let that put you off. 

Thank you NetGalley for my complimentary copy in return for my honest review.

I requested and received a temporary digital Advance Reader Copy of this book from #NetGalley, the publisher and the author in exchange for an honest review.  

From the publisher, as I do not repeat the contents or story of books in reviews, I let them do it as they do it better than I do 😸.

We wait in lines around the block for scoops of cookie dough. We photograph every meal. We visit selfie performance spaces and leave lucrative jobs to become farmers and craft brewers.

Why? What are we really hungry for?

In Hungry, Eve Turow-Paul provides a guided tour through the stranger corners of today's global food and lifestyle culture. How are 21st-century innovations and pressures are redefining people’s needs and desires? How does “foodie” culture, along with other lifestyle trends, provide an answer to our rising rates of stress, loneliness, anxiety, and depression?

Weaving together evolutionary psychology and sociology with captivating investigative reporting from around the world, Turow-Paul reveals the modern "kinds of hunger"—physical, spiritual, and emotional—that are driving today’s top trends:

- The connection between the “death” of the cereal industry and access to work email on our smartphones
- How posting images of our dinners on social media both fulfils and feeds our hunger for human connection in an increasingly isolated world
- The ways “diet tribes” and boutique fitness gyms substitute for organized religion 
- How access to round-the-clock news relates to the blowback against GMO foods
- Wellness retreats, astrology, plant parenthood, and other methods of easing modern anxiety
- Why “eating local” might be the key to solving not just climate change, but our current global sense of disconnection

From gluten-free and Paleo diets to meal kit subscriptions, and from mukbang broadcast jockeys to craft beer, Hungry deepens our understanding of why we do what we do, and helps us find greater purpose and joy in today’s technology-altered world.

I loved the mere thought of this book - as I make fun of foodies all the time and their Instagram posts (I only post food on vacation to go with GoogleMaps and Trip Advisor!). I also make fun of social media influences and said ilk as they seem hungry for ... LIFE.  The fact that avocado toast made it into the world of the Gallaghers on "Shameless" and "Patsy's Pies" made me lol several times while reading this book and thinking about the connection.

This book is well written and utterly fascinating. to look into the souls of, well, frankly, millennials, and to try and figure out how they work This is not a casual read: this is a treatise into modern life - these people need to read some books and turn off their devices and FIND THEMSELVES!!!  Read this book at book club ... it is a page-turner and totally discussable.

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As always, I try to find a reason to not rate with stars as I love emojis (outside of their incessant use by "🙏-ed Social Influencer Millennials/#BachelorNation survivors/Tik-Tok and YouTube  Millionaires/etc. " on Instagram and Twitter... Get a real job, people!) so let's give it 📱📱📱📱📱