Creative Writing

Hungry: Avocado Toast, Instagram Influencers, and Our Search for Connection and Meaning

Hungry: Avocado Toast, Instagram Influencers, and Our Search for Connection and Meaning by Eve Turrow-Paul, graduate ’13, Creative Writing at The New School

Benbella Books, 2020

From the publisher:

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 hungers–physical, spiritual, and emotional–that are driving today’s top trends.

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.

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