Word: hungered
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...study published this month in the journal Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Treasure and colleagues found that underweight anorexics performed poorly on a classic test of understanding others' emotions that was devised by Baron-Cohen to study such defects in people with autism-spectrum disorders. The theory is that hunger focuses the brain so sharply on the task of getting food that, as with other stressors, it shuts down higher cognitive functions, like reading other people's emotions...
...literature of the post-Bourdainian era is vast and unfortunately mostly forgettable (with a few notable exceptions, like Bill Buford's Heat). But to those who crave them, even bad chef memoirs have a certain mesmerizing quality. Take John DeLucie's The Hunger. Unlike Bourdain, DeLucie is not a particularly gifted writer. Also unlike Bourdain, he is annoyingly successful as a chef: he runs Manhattan's sceney Waverly Inn. All the stuff about models hitting on him makes him substantially less relatable...
...Hunger is far from unfinishable. When Bismarck said laws are like sausages, his point was that you shouldn't watch them getting made. But who among us has not wondered about sausages - or about where the prepared food actually comes from in an upscale purveyor like Dean & DeLuca? DeLucie worked at a Dean & DeLuca fresh out of cooking school, and he has the answer: a windowless, battleship-gray underground kitchen, where a Flying Dutchman crew of lost, disaffected and recently deinstitutionalized - but not necessarily untalented - cooks labors robotically over 25-lb. (11 kg) stainless-steel bowls of Red Bliss potato...
...somehow richer for possessing this knowledge. Food, especially restaurant food, comes to us as a highly wrought object, but who wrought it and how is a matter that's usually concealed from us. Books like The Hunger - along with satisfying our curiosity about who has sex in the walk-in freezer, and how exactly - restore the link between food and the labor that created it. They're Marxist gastronomy...
...maintained three jobs while studying at the University of Washington to be able to afford to study abroad; a lover of the outdoors who cherished hiking in the mountains that flank her home city; an innocent victim of rapid-fire media and the public's bottomless hunger for lurid scandal...