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15.05.12
Book Review: Love & Hunger – Thoughts on the gift of food
This is the perfect book to read on a cold winters day, sitting by an open fire, glass of red in hand, with a soup cooking in the kitchen. Charlotte Wood invites you into her home and her heart with her ‘thoughts on the gift of food’. A mix of beautiful writing and delicious food, a passion for both is expressed delightfully in this book. This book is instantly engaging and is a marriage between the art of writing and the art of cooking.
Throughout ‘Love & Hunger’ Wood combines cooking tips, historical insights, personal ruminations and deliciously simple recipes in a way that makes it easy to read cover to cover. It is more than a cookbook and will inspire both novice and experienced cooks alike.
Wood has cleverly infused this book with her passion for food, cooking and writing. It is charming, funny, inspirational and personal, somehow more of a conversation about food and cooking and that’s what makes it so inviting.
‘Love & Hunger’ contains more than 75 simple, classic recipes and hints, with an emphasis on the shared nature of cooking and eating.
"Charlotte Wood's Love & Hunger: Thoughts on the Gift of Food is in the poetic corner. [Wood] writes beautifully about food. Partly it's because she has something to say about life, not just about food ... Wood's nimble food writing shifts seamlessly from the hotly contested topic of table-setting on one page to grappling with hunger on another. No philosophy, snobbery, one-upmanship, no competing with restaurant cooks. Just a lot of honesty and admission of failings, mistakes, triumphs and pleasures."
- Helen Greenwood, The Sydney Morning Herald, May 5 2012
Review by Jess Godfrey - Copyright © 2012 Jess Godfrey – All Rights
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