Hungry, Eve TurowPaul
Hungry, Eve TurowPaul
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Hungry
Avocado Toast, Instagram Influencers, and Our Search for Connection and Meaning

Author: Eve Turow-Paul

Narrator: Taylor Meskimen

Unabridged: 11 hr 35 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/09/2020

Synopsis

We wait in lines around the block for scoops of cookie dough. We photograph every meal. We visit selfie performance spaces and leave lucrative jobs to become farmers and craft brewers.Why? What are we really hungry for?In Hungry, Eve Turow-Paul provides a guided tour through the stranger corners of today’s global food and lifestyle culture. How are twenty-first-century innovations and pressures are redefining people’s needs and desires? How does “foodie” culture, along with other lifestyle trends, provide an answer to our rising rates of stress, loneliness, anxiety, and depression?Weaving together evolutionary psychology and sociology with captivating investigative reporting from around the world, Turow-Paul reveals the modern hungers—physical, spiritual, and emotional—that are driving today’s top trends:The connection between the “death” of the cereal industry and access to work email on our smartphonesHow posting images of our dinners on social media both fulfills and feeds our hunger for human connection in an increasingly isolated worldThe ways “diet tribes” and boutique fitness gyms substitute for organized religionHow access to round-the-clock news relates to the blowback against GMO foodsWellness retreats, astrology, plant parenthood, and other methods of easing modern anxietyWhy “eating local” might be the key to solving not just climate change, but our current global sense of disconnection

About Eve Turow-Paul

Eve Turow-Paul is a nationally recognized thought leader on youth culture and the food system. As a writer and adviser, Eve studies food trends and human behavior. With her unique blend of investigative reporting and analysis of academic research and lifestyle markets, Turow-Paul identifies the wants and needs that explain today’s hottest trends. Born in Evanston, Illinois, Turow-Paul graduated from Amherst College in 2009 with a degree in psychology. She is a frequent keynote speaker, a Forbes contributor, and the author of A Taste of Generation Yum: How the Millennial Generation’s Love for Organic Fare, Celebrity Chefs and Microbrews Will Make or Break the Future of Food. You can see her in the documentary film WASTED! The Story of Food Waste. Today, Turow-Paul utilizes her extensive empirical research to advise Fortune 500 companies, startups, and independent entrepreneurs on how to connect with and better serve people in this digital age.

About Taylor Meskimen

Taylor Meskimen is an actress and a narrator. Her audiobook readings include several L. Ron Hubbard novels, such as Gun Boss of Tumbleweed and Death Waits at Sundown.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Paul on September 30, 2012

I've been reading Allen Zadoff's book in this first month of my own journey with weight loss through Weight Watchers. Allen's book has been on my radar for some time. Allen was among those first authors that came on board RAW INK Online with this title, FOOD, GIRLS, AND OTHER THINGS I CANNOT HAVE. I......more

Goodreads review by Kim on March 15, 2013

This book came to me at the right time, and it was eye-opening to say the least. This isn't a self-help book. This is just the true story of a man who changed his relationship with food, eating, and most importantly, the way he began to live his life after 28 years of hiding behind food. As someone......more

Goodreads review by Shanda on July 23, 2013

This book has changed my life. I honestly don't throw that statement around very frequently. This book and the author's experiences resonated deeply with me. I have had a life-long battle with food and even though I know this, it wasn't until I read Mr. Zadoff's words that I actually got it...and it......more

Goodreads review by Catherine on January 09, 2012

I love this book. I love how he writes and how short the chapters are. Like a thought is a chapter. It can be as short as a paragraph. LOVE that. I'm half way through. Want to give all of my female friends a copy. Especially the ones who relate to the dilemma of weight, self esteem, yo yo diets, obs......more

Goodreads review by Jen on May 25, 2017

I struggle with whether to go with 3 or 4 stars. It's a solid 3 1/2 for me. Zadoff tells his story with humor and great candor. I appreciate his honesty. I've always felt like I have an unhealthy attitude toward food, and while I don't know that my problem is as severe as his, I learned a lot from hi......more

Quotes

“With substance, style, and a keen eye for data, Eve Turow-Paul uses food to illuminate the psychology of an entire generation. Hungry is a deeply insightful book that also happens to be more delicious than dessert.” Daniel Gilbert, professor of psychology at Harvard University and author of Stumbling on Happiness

“Turow-Paul combines great storytelling with a hard look at many trends and beliefs that are not based on facts. She artfully explains why they pull us in anyway, the psychological needs they fill, and how we can bring order and sanity to one of the most fraught topics today: food.” Dr. Daniel J. Levitin, neuroscientist and New York Times bestselling author of The Organized Mind

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