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Feed Me: Writers Dish About Food, Eating, Weight, and Body Image

Feed Me: Writers Dish About Food, Eating, Weight, and Body Image

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Some of today's leading female writers speak out on the subject of weight and the obsession with body image in a collection of heartbreakingly funny essays.

"For every woman who has ever (a) hated her body, (b) stepped on a scale more than once a day, (c) cried in a dressing room, or (d) all of the above, a funny and heartbreaking collection of essays about the tyranny of thinness..."
- Betsy Lerner, author of Food and Loathing

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Feed Me: Writers Dish About Food, Eating, Weight, and Body Image

Includes Essays by: Diana Abu-Jaber, Jane E. Brody, Amity Gaige, Joyce Maynard, Laurie Notaro, Whitney Otto, and others. Edited by Harriet Brown.

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In our appearance-obsessed society, eating is about much more than hunger and sustenance. Food inspires pleasure and anxiety, shame and obsession. We are constantly judged on how we look, so we’ve come to judge ourselves (and others) on what and how we eat.

These evocative essays, from some of the most talented and popular writers working today, tackle this universal subject with humor, longing, and compassion.

- Joyce Maynard writes about learning to make pie with her complex but adored mother.
- Caroline Leavitt’s chilling piece describes the overlap between power and eating.
- Ophira Edut explains how an outspoken “body outlaw” wound up on Jenny Craig.
- Diana Abu-Jaber writes about abandoning her Bedouin customs for America’s silverware and table manners–and missing the physical, hands-on connection with food.

Exploring the bonds between appetite and remorse, hunger and longing, satisfaction and desire, this anthology is for every woman who’s ever felt guilty about eating dessert, or gushed over a friend’s weight loss, or wished she had a different body.

From the Readers

"FEED ME! is a terrific collection of essays looking at thoughts and feelings about food and eating from a number of perspectives. They run the gamut from joyful to miserable, with all kinds of interesting stuff in between. Kate Harding contributes one of my favorites, that manages to come across as both cranky and charming. Any reader is bound to find plenty of food for thought!"
- A Mother in Washington, D.C.