Hungry: The Highly Anticipated Memoir from One of the Greatest Food Writers of All Time

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORTNUM & MASON DEBUT FOOD BOOK AWARD 2021 Extraordinary. Vivid irreverent heartbreaking. NIGEL SLATER So funny and so delicious. I could eat it. DAWN OPORTER Delicious. THE OBSERVER From Frazzles to Foie Gras: a memoir of wanting more. From an early age Grace Dent was hungry. As a little girl growing up in Currock Carlisle she yearned to be something bigger to go somewhere better. Hungry traces Graces story from growing up eating beige food to becoming one of the much-loved voices on the British food scene. Its also everyones story from treats with your nan to cheese and pineapple hedgehogs to the exquisite joy of cheaply-made apple crumble with custard. Its the high-point of a chip butty covered in vinegar and too much salt in the school canteen on an otherwise grey day of double-Maths and cross country running. Its the real story of how we have all lived laughed and eaten over the past 40 years. Warm funny and joyous Hungry is also about love and loss the central role that food plays in all our lives and how a Cadburys Fruit n Nut in a hospital vending machine can brighten the toughest situation.