Hunger Like a Thirst
A witty and lively memoir from food writer and New York Times contributor Besha Rodell, (formerly) one of the world’s last anonymous restaurant critics
When Besha Rodell moved from Australia to the United States with her mother at fourteen, she was a foreigner in a new land, missing her friends, her father, and the food she grew up eating. In the years that followed, Rodell began waitressing and discovered the buzz of the restaurant world, immersing herself in the lifestyle and community while struggling with the industry’s shortcomings. As she built a family, Rodell realized her dream, though only a handful of women before her had done it: to make a career as a restaurant critic.
From the streets of Brooklyn to lush Atlanta to sunny Los Angeles to traveling and eating around the world, and, finally, home to Australia, Rodell takes us on a delicious, raw, and fascinating journey through her life and career and explores the history of criticism and dining and the cultural shifts that have turned us all into food obsessives. Hunger Like a Thirst shares stories of the joys and hardships of Rodell’s coming-of-age, the amazing (and sometimes te
Book: Hunger Like a Thirst
Author: Besha Rodell
Publisher: Celadon Books
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Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Synopsis : &#;When Besha Rodell moved from Australia to the United States with her mother at fourteen, she was a foreigner in a new land, missing her friends, her father, and the food she grew up eating. In the years that followed, Rodell began waitressing and discovered the buzz of the restaurant world, immersing herself in the lifestyle and community while struggling with the industry&#;s shortcomings. As she built a family, Rodell realized her dream, though only a handful of women before her had done it : to make a career as a restaurant critic.
From the streets of Brooklyn to lush Atlanta to sunny Los Angeles to traveling and eating around the world and, finally, home to Australia, Rodell takes us on a delicious, raw, and fascinating journey through her life and career and explores the history of criticism and dining and the cultural shifts that have turned us all into food obsessives. Hunger Like aThirst shares the joys and hardships of coming of age, the amazing (and sometimes terrible) meals she ate along the way, and the dear friends she made in ea
Besha Rodell: unmasking a food critic
I’ll never forget the first time it happened. The manager of a restaurant showed up at our table, looked around at my party of four and smiled. And then he turned to me and said, “Are you Besha Rodell?”
“Besha Rodell?” I asked. “Who’s that?”
It was less than a year into my tenure as a restaurant critic, in Atlanta, Georgia, and I’d already been made. That time I got away with it. The manager explained that Besha Rodell was the new critic for the weekly newspaper, and there was a rumour going around that she had an Australian accent.
“South African,” I lied. He bought it. I think.
Years later, during my first week at a job in Los Angeles, I got a text message from a friend. “Are you sitting down?” He paused, and then: “Eater just published a photo of you.” I clicked on the link and there it was: blurry, from a distance and mortifyingly unflattering, but undeniably me. The photo was taken down within the hour, at the request of the photographer.
A few weeks later, the same website published another photo, this one much clearer, with the headline,
Hunger Like a Thirst: From Food Stamps to Fine Dining, a Restaurant Critic Finds Her Place at the Table
I received an ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
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