HUNGRY EB

Grace Dent

• Publisher: Mudlark
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN: 9780008333171
• eBook ISBN: 9780008333195
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Journalist Biographies

WINNER OF THE FORTNUM & MASON DEBUT FOOD BOOK AWARD 2021

WINNER OF 2021 LAKELAND BOOK OF THE YEAR

'Extraordinary. Vivid, irreverent, heartbreaking.' NIGEL SLATER

'So funny and so delicious. I could eat it.' DAWN O'PORTER

'Delicious.' THE OBSERVER

From Frazzles to Foie Gras: a memoir of wanting more.

From an early age, Grace Dent was hungry. As a little girl growing up in Currock, Carlisle, she yearned to be something bigger, to go somewhere better.

Hungry traces Grace's story from growing up eating beige food to becoming one of the much-loved voices on the British food scene. It's also everyone's story – from treats with your nan, to cheese and pineapple hedgehogs, to the exquisite joy of cheaply-made apple crumble with custard. It's the high-point of a chip butty covered in vinegar and too much salt in the school canteen, on an otherwise grey day of double-Maths and cross country running. It's the real story of how we have all lived, laughed, and eaten over the past 40 years.

Warm, funny and joyous, Hungry is also about love and loss, the central role that food plays in all our lives, and how a Cadbury's Fruit 'n' Nut in a hospital vending machine can brighten the toughest situation.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright
• Note to Readers
• Dedication
• Contents
• Preface
• Epigraph
• CHAPTER 1: Sketty
• CHAPTER 2: A Galaxy Far, Far Away
• CHAPTER 3: Pickled Egg
• CHAPTER 4: Never Mind the Tunnock’s
• CHAPTER 5: By Royal Appointment
• CHAPTER 6: BMW
• CHAPTER 7: Limitless Gravy
• CHAPTER 8: Sex on the Beach
• CHAPTER 9: Monsters
• CHAPTER 10: Your Own Personal Toby
• CHAPTER 11: Whelks in Jam
• Epilogue
• Acknowledgements
• About the Publisher