Great book. I loved the whole storyline. It was entertaining and engaging the whole way through the book.

I always wonder why anyone young feels the need to write a memoir - unless you have been in extraordinairy circumstances (say Elizabeth Smart), a sportsman writing about their (finished) career or you have a very special story to tell (say Chanel Miller), I find writing young people writing memoirs being a bit of proud people thinking that their life story is unique. Might be the case, but not here. I find this story being kind of shallow, “me me me” story where the authoress is concentrating on her perceived hard life (when in reality she is kind of privileged) and a couple of culinary friends she have met and the good food she have consumed. While this memoir might be interesting to authoress’ family and friends as her news, it is not offering enough content for the other readers. There are better memoirs out in the market covering the females in the hospitality business or the women’s way to motherhood.
I am writing this while scrolling the news to check the Ukraine situation. I find the Ukrainians being the real heroes, them living the hard life, women with children entering the border checkpoints to become refugees in the countries foreign to them, while their men fight. How lucky we are, we the ones living in our safe circumstances.

Plenty checked most of the boxes for me. I'm a huge fan of what I term foodie memoirs, and Hannah Howard does deliver with great descriptions of meals that she's eaten in her career as a food writer. Her writing is engaging and very readable, and her stories on various women in the food industry as well as her own personal story make for a good read. Yet these very readable stories seemed disconnected at times, and as a reader I would bounce along from family stories to those of women in the food industry to Howard and her husband's quest for a Brooklyn apartment with no connecting thread to weave all these stories together.

And while the book did meander for me at various times, Howard's skill as a writer always kept my interest.

I would like to thank #NetGAlley and the publisher for this Advanced Reader Copy (ARC) of #Plenty.

I love a good food memoir and the focus on women makes this even better. At a time in our lives when most of us are eating out far less often than we used to, it is nice to at least read about food!

A wonderful memoir about Howard's journey to learn more about women in the food business as well as about herself. These are women who we haven't seen before and I learned something from them. Howard's own relationship with food is well incorporate as is her effort to have a child. Thanks to netgalley for the ArC. It's an excellent read.

I felt like I was going on this journey with her! I loved all the places she traveled and all the food stories. I love food memoirs and this one is a new favorite.

Thanks NetGalley and the publisher for granting me a copy.

I received a copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

I love reading food memoirs and I have read a lot of great ones.. This one was really wonderful. It definitely lived up to my high expectations.

I gravitated toward this memoir with hopes that it would be somewhat similar to Ruth Reichl's Save Me the Plums or Frank Bruni's Born Round, both of which I adored. It was in some senses like those books, but in other ways, Plenty was different in that Hannah Howard brought something refreshing to the table with this memoir by infusing her own personal triumphs with tales of many women in the culinary world who have inspired her.

The book itself is extremely well-written and adventurous. I enjoyed getting to know more about Hannah, what it was like for her growing up and working the food scene in New York, and her serious passion for food, "I loved food entirely," she says.

Howard has an insatiable drive and energy, which was clear back when she was interning at the Artisanal Premium Cheese Center, up until now with writing this important and timely book to highlight other driven females like herself.

I learned a lot from this book—a wealth of knowledge about how restaurants are run and the hierarchies within them, to fascinating facts about the food itself. Reading about Howard's worldly culinary adventures and enviable travel writing assignments was especially engaging.

Throughout the book, the reader meets a number of fantastic self-made women making a name for themselves in the culinary world, whether they're working as successful travel writers, hosting globally attended cooking classes via Skype, or running barge tours around France, they're all pursuing something that they're incredibly passionate about.

I was unaware of Hannah's struggle with an eating disorder, and I'm currently receiving treatment for anorexia, so in a way this book felt relevant, timely, and relatable for me. Much like Hannah, I'm also a food lover at heart, having devoured many food memoirs, watched just about every show on the Food Network, and amassed a ton of cookbooks that I hope to one day have the courage to pick up.

I won't compare my eating disorder to Howard's, or anyone's for that matter, but it was refreshing to know that I'm not alone in both loving and loathing food. Being obsessed with the one thing I fear the most. It was also interesting to know this is the case for a lot of people working in the food industry. I've had a longstanding dream to be a baker one day, but that's something my eating disorder has held me back from. Reading about Hannah's experience with her eating disorder and others in the industry really hit home for me, and gave me some food for thought, so to speak.

I really felt like I took a trip with this book, a true culinary journey from the Upper East Side in New York to all the places Hannah describes and talks about in the book like Oslo in Norway, Vergiate in Italy and Burgundy in France, to name a few. She really connects with her readers and invites them on those trips with her. And at a time when we can't travel due to COVID, it was fun to imagine those places in my mind.

Overall, Plenty was a delicious read. It could feel a little disjointed at times, lacking some structure, but I believe Hannah was successful in what she set out to do with this book which was to share more of her story and the stories of women who have inspired her. It's clear that Hannah is an incredibly talented writer, her prose flowing beautifully throughout.