Title: Hungry Hearts: 13 Tales of Food & Love
Editors: Elsie Chapman, Caroline Tung Richmond
Authors: Elsie Chapman, Caroline Tung Richmond, Sara Farizan, Sandhya Menon, Sangu Mandanna, Rebecca Roanhorse, Adi Alsaid and Phoebe North
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Publication date: June 18, 2019
Pages: 352
Source/format: e-ARC/Publisher
M Y T H O U G H T S
Hungry Hearts: 13 Tales of Food & Love embodies a variety of different cuisines from numerous cultures with a wonderful line up of diverse authors. Written in a variety of genres, the authors have included some of the very best, deliciously described foods in short stories, emphasizing how food, family and culture intertwine, creating a unique identity. Hungry Hearts: 13 Tales of Food & Love will make your mouth water as you read all these stories.
From bakeries to cooking competitions, Hungry Hearts: 13 Tales of Food & Love feeds the soul. These interconnected stories are heartwarming and they are just what everyone needs. What I love is how each story incorporates a variety ingredients, different cultures, different techniques and different time periods. It's like a mixing bowl of flavors.
Because of the anthology formatting, it makes it easy to pick up the book to read at your own pace. I would love to see a blog tour or some kind of collaboration tour where someone cooks a dish to represent each story from Hungry Hearts: 13 Tales of Food & Love. Or even better, a recipe book that goes hand in hand with the anthology. If you love food or anything culinary related, pick up Hungry Hearts: 13 Tales of Food & Love.
Editors: Elsie Chapman, Caroline Tung Richmond
Authors: Elsie Chapman, Caroline Tung Richmond, Sara Farizan, Sandhya Menon, Sangu Mandanna, Rebecca Roanhorse, Adi Alsaid and Phoebe North
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Publication date: June 18, 2019
Pages: 352
Source/format: e-ARC/Publisher
Rating: ☆☆☆☆
Synopsis (from goodreads.com):
From some of your favorite bestselling and critically acclaimed authors—including Sandhya Menon, Anna-Marie McLemore, and Rin Chupeco—comes a collection of interconnected short stories that explore the intersection of family, culture, and food in the lives of thirteen teens.
A shy teenager attempts to express how she really feels through the confections she makes at her family’s pasteleria. A tourist from Montenegro desperately seeks a magic soup dumpling that could cure his fear of death. An aspiring chef realizes that butter and soul are the key ingredients to win a cooking competition that could win him the money to save his mother’s life.
Welcome to Hungry Hearts Row, where the answers to most of life’s hard questions are kneaded, rolled, baked. Where a typical greeting is, “Have you had anything to eat?” Where magic and food and love are sometimes one and the same.
Told in interconnected short stories, Hungry Hearts explores the many meanings food can take on beyond mere nourishment. It can symbolize love and despair, family and culture, belonging and home.
M Y T H O U G H T S
Hungry Hearts: 13 Tales of Food & Love embodies a variety of different cuisines from numerous cultures with a wonderful line up of diverse authors. Written in a variety of genres, the authors have included some of the very best, deliciously described foods in short stories, emphasizing how food, family and culture intertwine, creating a unique identity. Hungry Hearts: 13 Tales of Food & Love will make your mouth water as you read all these stories.
From bakeries to cooking competitions, Hungry Hearts: 13 Tales of Food & Love feeds the soul. These interconnected stories are heartwarming and they are just what everyone needs. What I love is how each story incorporates a variety ingredients, different cultures, different techniques and different time periods. It's like a mixing bowl of flavors.
Because of the anthology formatting, it makes it easy to pick up the book to read at your own pace. I would love to see a blog tour or some kind of collaboration tour where someone cooks a dish to represent each story from Hungry Hearts: 13 Tales of Food & Love. Or even better, a recipe book that goes hand in hand with the anthology. If you love food or anything culinary related, pick up Hungry Hearts: 13 Tales of Food & Love.
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