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Love and Hunger
by
Charlotte Wood (Goodreads Author)
The award-winning author of The Children and Animal People, explores the solitary and shared pleasures of cooking and eating in an ode to good food, prepared and presented with minimum fuss and maximum love.
'What's important is the fact of eating together - the gathering at the table, the conviviality.'
Love & Hunger is a distillation of everything Charlotte Wood has le...more
'What's important is the fact of eating together - the gathering at the table, the conviviality.'
Love & Hunger is a distillation of everything Charlotte Wood has le...more
Paperback, 320 pages
Published
May 1st 2012
by Allen and Unwin
(first published January 1st 2012)
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Jan 09, 2013
Newtown Review of Books
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The best food writers are those who delight in the preparation of good food and in sharing it with loved ones, and novelist Charlotte Wood is one such writer. In her memoir, Love and Hunger, Wood writes about her passion for cooking in the plain-spoken lyricism readers of her novels have come to love.
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May 09, 2012
Shelleyrae at Book'd Out
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Charlotte Wood's Love & Hunger combines delicious yet simple recipes and cooking tips with philosophical and personal ruminations. It is easily read from cover to cover but then deserves a place amongst your shelves of recipe books, to be pulled out frequently when looking for menu inspiration. Charlotte derives great pleasure from cooking and this book is infused with her passion, but rather than preaching about the correct steps and right tools, Love & Hunger is a conversation about fo...more
I hate cooking with a passion and I work with eating disorders. So yes, my relationship with food is complicated.
A friend lent this to me to me as one of my 2013 goals was to get in to cooking and the literature I tend to read around food involves being literally afraid of food. I think her words were "Here's someone who actually has a healthy relationship with food. Read." So I did, and she was right. Very right. In more ways than one.
Admittedly I was bored at times, but this book did somethi...more
I’ve talked before on my blog here about how I don’t really like cooking that much. I like the idea of cooking. I like finding things that I’d like to eat and cutting the recipes out of magazines, or whatever, for a rainy day. I buy cookbooks. But when it comes down to it, I don’t really like the creation process of cooking, especially with 2 young children underfoot. My husband works nights and I find the time between say 5-8pm the most difficult to get things done. The kids are bored, they’re...more
Stand-by for a bit of a rave because I LOVED this book. I am partial to good food. In fact, I enjoy cooking almost as much as reading… so when the two interests combine, it’s thrilling (for me, anyway). Charlotte Wood’s Love & Hunger is part memoir, part cookbook.
The book is a wonderful collection of Wood’s thoughts on food, cooking and enjoying meals with friends and family. It includes practical kitchen advice and a generous serving of tempting recipes, accompanied by Wood’s warm commentar...more
The book is a wonderful collection of Wood’s thoughts on food, cooking and enjoying meals with friends and family. It includes practical kitchen advice and a generous serving of tempting recipes, accompanied by Wood’s warm commentar...more
I enjoyed this book immensely. More a collection of vignettes on food and the way it figures in Wood's life, Love and Hunger fulled my already burgeoning foodie tendencies and has inspired me to get back into the kitchen and create.
Each chapter is a self-contained story, followed by corresponding recipes. Sometimes I would skip ahead just to see the deliciousness that the chapter would allude to. Wood's recipes are simple, but fresh and colourful, and this is way I prefer to cook. Her emphasis...more
Each chapter is a self-contained story, followed by corresponding recipes. Sometimes I would skip ahead just to see the deliciousness that the chapter would allude to. Wood's recipes are simple, but fresh and colourful, and this is way I prefer to cook. Her emphasis...more
I have just finished Charlotte Wood’s Love and Hunger and urge everyone to read it, especially those who must cook every night and resent it, or avoids cooking when they can because they consider it a chore. This book has the power to reignite a passion for life, friendship, food and the everyday.
Part memoir and part recipe book, Love and Hunger can be read cover to cover, as I did, just like a novel, or can be dipped into when the moment requires. Charlotte’s unusual cook book is the wise frien...more
Part memoir and part recipe book, Love and Hunger can be read cover to cover, as I did, just like a novel, or can be dipped into when the moment requires. Charlotte’s unusual cook book is the wise frien...more
Light, indulgent, thoughtful -- just like the kind of food Wood writes about so lovingly. I enjoyed the mix of personal reflection and enquiry into the everyday rituals of eating and sharing food & it made me think about the little rituals that permeate my own family and that have shaped an approach to food. My Mum is a wonderful cook, but a cookbook cook -- never deviating from the recipe while I tend to (sometimes at my peril) experiment and play withhold and flavours. Can't get over a lit...more
A Christmas gift from a friend.
A very thoughtful gift at that - and I read it immediately and "gobbled it up" in 2 days or so.
I only rated it 3 stars because I liked it and enjoyed Charlotte's musings and sentiments on food, giving and sharing as a form of nurturing and love. It was a very gentle read and I sure loved seeing her recipes.
A very thoughtful gift at that - and I read it immediately and "gobbled it up" in 2 days or so.
I only rated it 3 stars because I liked it and enjoyed Charlotte's musings and sentiments on food, giving and sharing as a form of nurturing and love. It was a very gentle read and I sure loved seeing her recipes.
A book to warm you through. Its mindful generosity is a great pleasure. So many fab recepies to try to boot
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loved this book, so many parts of the story resonated with me
Not a book that's going to set the world on fire but nonetheless an enjoyable read. I really liked the author's invocation of community, generosity and caring as integral to cooking and sharing food.
A very personal account of Charlotte's relationship with food. I found a lot of it quite boring. She did however impart the secret of pastry and I will be making a few of the recipes.
Wood's prose is warm, honest, startlingly eloquent and her musings about food and cooking are elegant yet sincere. As utterly enjoyable as a thick slice of rich, luscious butter pound cake.
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Oh my goodness @charlotteshucks! Who are you and what are you doing in my head?! How inspiring.
Loved it! Think I may need my own copy!! Delightful, inspiring, refreshing, warming.
Loved this book, inspiring & moving look at food
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