Try as you might: a cannibal-food-critic book is always going to be more goofy than it is elegant. It's also both intentionally and unintentionally pretentious, falling short of the standard it's setting for itself, which is a little less easy to forgive. when i accepted it, it was a pretty good time. Not that there's anything wrong with that. It also takes itself Extremely Seriously, and is Very Try-Hard, and has so much Overly Formal Prose of the variety that always seems like the author went back and tried to make it sound fancier.įor these reasons, i unshelved it as lit fic halfway through - try as it might, this is more general-fiction-beach-read than it likes to admit. This is a book about a female food critic (rad) who has a lot of sex (rad) and sometimes murders and eats men (admit it: also rad). but if you're willing to believe in can be girlboss. Summers' A Certain Hunger introduces us to the food world's most charming psychopath and an exciting new voice in fiction.Ĭannibalism may not be morally sound. Recounting her life from a seemingly idyllic farm-to-table childhood, the heights of her career, to the moment she plunges an ice pick into a man's neck on Fire Island, Dorothy Daniels show us what happens when a woman finally embraces her superiority.Ī satire of early foodieism, a critique of how gender is defined, and a showcase of virtuoso storytelling, Chelsea G. Dorothy loves sex as much as she loves food, and while she has struggled to find a long-term partner that can keep up with her, she makes the best of her single life, frequently traveling from Manhattan to Italy for a taste of both.īut there is something within Dorothy that's different from everyone else, and having suppressed it long enough, she starts to embrace what makes Dorothy uniquely, terrifyingly herself.

Discerning, meticulous, and very, very smart, Dorothy's clear mastery of the culinary arts make it likely that she could, on any given night, whip up a more inspired dish than any one of the chefs she writes about. Food critic Dorothy Daniels loves what she does.

A certain hunger chelsea g summers