A review by mora55
Hungry Hearts: 13 Tales of Food & Love by Elsie Chapman
First of all, I now want to go out and try all the foods mentioned here, as well as like... every different cuisine I've never tried, full stop. I loved the exploration of how food can be magical and have so much meaning, and how it's so important to cultures and connection.
I didn't know going in that these stories were all interconnected and set in a neighborhood called Hungry Hearts Row, and I though that was so cute and fun! I liked seeing mentions of different characters popping up in different stories and wonder how much work it took to weave these authors' stories together like that, especially since there are so many different genres in here as well.
As with most anthologies, I liked some of the stories more than the rest, and some of them just didn't do it for me. Overall, though, I enjoyed it! My favorite story was "Side Work" by Sara Farizan.
(Also, CW at The Quiet Pond actually went out to try different foods from this book, and it was a delightful blog post to read! https://thequietpond.com/2019/06/25/welcome-to-cws-hungry-hearts-food-crawl-where-i-tried-food-and-cuisine-from-this-delicious-anthology/)
I didn't know going in that these stories were all interconnected and set in a neighborhood called Hungry Hearts Row, and I though that was so cute and fun! I liked seeing mentions of different characters popping up in different stories and wonder how much work it took to weave these authors' stories together like that, especially since there are so many different genres in here as well.
As with most anthologies, I liked some of the stories more than the rest, and some of them just didn't do it for me. Overall, though, I enjoyed it! My favorite story was "Side Work" by Sara Farizan.
(Also, CW at The Quiet Pond actually went out to try different foods from this book, and it was a delightful blog post to read! https://thequietpond.com/2019/06/25/welcome-to-cws-hungry-hearts-food-crawl-where-i-tried-food-and-cuisine-from-this-delicious-anthology/)