Thought-provoking look at why so many are obsessed with food and sharing it all online these days. But this book is more than that. In our disconnected society, we're all looking for ways to connect and find our community. Social media isn't bad, but relying on it too much can be. Used as a tool to connect with people you can actually socialize with in person, it can be great! I do love that making things ourselves has gained popularity and the ease of finding information on improving our skills is so easy to access online when we don't have someone to learn from in person. I will never understand the popularity of mukbang or social media influencers not seemingly based on any skill. but I enjoyed this discussion of what people are really looking for when viewing these streams.

Thanks to BenBella Books and NetGalley for the eARC in exchange for my honest review.

I found this to be an enjoyable read, keeping me on my toes throughout. The storyline was written well and flowed seamlessly. I look forward to reading more by this author!

Hungry is an in-depth look into why we do the things we do in today's culture from foodie culture to selfie destinations. I really enjoyed this book and the thoughts behind what motivates these different activities. It's well-written and easy to read.

Found this book to be much of a slog - like the author was forcing too much information, and the flow just felt off. The introduction alone, which said a lot to in the end not say much and just 'prepare' the way for the rest of the book, took up a whopping 9-10% of the book already! The information felt jumbled, but what really killed it for me is how much this book is suddenly out of date and not relevant given how much the pandemic of Covid-19 has changed the world already. People hardly go out to eat anymore, most restaurants are closed because of sanitary lockdown and many might not even reopen, and international travel is at a standstill and it is not guaranteed it will ever pick up again to the rate it was before the pandemic, when someone would hop on a plane to go somewhere just to experience the food. Just seems that this book is almost historical now in matters of foodie culture and how people consume food out there in the world

An eye opening look at today’s foodie culture.A look at food through today’s trends .I enjoyed reading learning more about the world of food.,Highly recommend .#netgalley #hungry

This book is started slow, but once I got into it I was hooked! A look at the hows and whys of modern food culture. This book is well researched and while it can, at times, read for an older audience, I, a millennial enjoyed it tremendously.

While I wasn’t able to finish reading the book, due to complications from COVID, I am adding it to my wishlist to purchase a hard copy. While reading I found myself highlighting interesting information and making notes about things I wanted to explore further.

This book is for those who enjoy a good academic learning read and for those for a passion for the why behind food and why we love and sometimes love to hate it.

Hungry. What are we hungry for? This book, full of stats, studies, and information tries to answer that. My daughter takes photos of her food and posts it on FB and Instagram, she also gets a food box from a local farm and boxes in the mail from food companies like Hello Fresh and Amazon for convenience so she doesn't have to go to the store but what does it all mean? I don't know and even after reading this book I still really don't understand the reason for it all. The numbers don't really explain the human psyche and there have been food fads since time immemorial though I hope the trends t local, healthier, less meat-based diets continue. The quarantine made many of us bakers and to rediscover the family dinner table. Will this pause make us think our lives and change the numbers in this book? This book is not for everyone but if you want to take the time to read it and digest the stats and information you can come to your own conclusions. I guess I read this book hoping it would explain some of the foodie behaviors of today and I am still mystified. Maybe it depends on your generation. I found the traveling interesting also. Obviously written before the quarantine. Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for allowing me read this book in exchange for a review.

I thought I'd be interested in this, but I felt it was a little on the boring side and the format wasn't the easiest to follow. It just wasn't compelling enough for me to really enjoy and I ended up not finishing it.

I received an arc of this title from NetGalley for an honest review. This was a fun and informative book and I learned a lot.

Thank you to NetGalley and Eve Turow-Paul for sending me an Advanced Reader Copy of Hungry in exchange for an honest review!

Hungry explores millennial foodie culture through researching and explaining trends, such as foodstagram accounts, mukbangs, food delivery apps, and more. Turow-Paul seeks to answer the question, "How are 21st-century innovations and pressures are redefining people’s needs and desires?"

Rating: 4/5 stars. The psychology of 21st century foodie culture and "wellness diets" overtaking social media these days was fascinating to read about in this book! The author's connection of how these trends seek to fulfill a physical, spiritual, social, and emotional hunger was something that I had not considered before. This book utilizes a lot of studies and statistics from the U.S. as well as other countries, which are pretty eye-opening. While this did take a long time for me to read because of all the statistics/numbers, I would recommend Hunger to anyone who wants to learn more about the "why" of today's food obsessed culture and trends!

Thank you to the author, BenBella Books and NetGalley for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

I found this a very informative and thought-provoking read. I love to cook, and to enjoy a meal with friends - and this book gave me a lot of insight into why this is such a thing for me, and what has changed in the last 50 years in terms of consumer tastes, lifestyle and food culture.. I loved that the author did not just look at food trends, but also focused on the human behavior behind trends, and continually brought it back to the Maslow pyramid, which is such a basic building block of human behavior. I found the mix of academic and factual writing, and journalistic storytelling great in terms of creating a foundation and then making it personal.

I've been wondering when this book would come along, and I'm so glad it did. Food is so ingrained in every culture - including social media/internet culture. This book was well-researched and I learned a lot of interesting tidbits along the way.

Quite the enjoyable read if you're into scientific approaches and want to understand more about the psychology behind a huge chunk of what people share on social media.

Thank you for the opportunity to read and review this book. It just did not catch my attention at all

It took me such a long time to read this book, because I wanted to make sure I understood every single point the author was making, and I kept taking notes and quotes because I found so many excellent arguments in there ! The psychology of foodie culture is such an interesting topic - along with the diet culture that we live in, and the "wellness diets" overtaking social media - and this book explores the different aspects of our relationship to food, social standing and technology in a very organized way. The author makes an effort to explain the different psychological theories used in the development of her ideas, including Maslow's hierarchy of needs, and resulting in an extremely thought-provocative and informative book.
I would recommend it to people interested in the psychology behind all the current foodie trends and eating behaviors, and people who aren't too put off by a relatively dense and slow book.

I wanted to love this book-- the copy describes something I'd love to read. Unfortunately, I found this to be a bit of a slog. The author can't quite balance the first-person narrative storytelling with the data, and ends up sort of overwriting. There's definitely some interesting stuff in here, particularly exploring the "why" of millennial foodie culture, but I wouldn't purchase this book.

This book is an excellent expose of the psychology behind all the millennial foodies, food-obsessed culture, food selfies, and "real" food movements. It attempts to chart a course for how food preparation and manufacturing will be changed in the future.

This is not a cookbook!

The author has researched the "why" behind so much of the culture today, exploring what is driving the movement toward such a food-centric culture.

I found the book slightly interesting, but not compelling. I am not a millennial so that might be part of the reason!

I received a free ARC as a reviewer for NetGalley!

LOVED this. It gave great insight into our increasing obsession with food and how we portrait it. Definitely seek this out if you love food and food culture.

Hungry is not your typical food book, exploring how foodie culture reflects the current cultural norms and technological innovation. I found all of the research in this book fascinating, as well as the connections the author was able to make between our increasing reliance on technology for connection and the ways they explain our behaviors and trends, from mukbangs, food influencers, foodie culture, food delivery apps, increasing rates of veganism, and more.

I would highly recommend this book to anyone interested in social science, or who wants to gain insight into how our relationship to food is changing in the post-modern era.

An interesting look at the rise of foodies and influencers and how they are shaping a new way of looking at and thinking about food--and online interaction in a wider sense. Very well researched, but some of the conclusions it draws are yet to be really proven given that many of the behaviors and trends it looks at are relatively new.