{"product_id":"tell-me-how-you-eat-food-power-and-the-will-to-live-hardcover","title":"Tell Me How You Eat: Food, Power, and the Will to Live - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAmber Husain\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBustle\u003c\/i\u003e's Most Anticipated\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn intimate and expansive exploration of how and why we eat, and the relationship between food and empowerment, through the historic feasts and fasts of radicals and tyrants.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eInspired by writer Amber Husain's unorthodox route to healing from anorexia, \u003ci\u003eTell Me How You Eat \u003c\/i\u003eexamines not just how society views the refusal to eat, but how we understand the meaning and power of food. Suspecting that the standard courses of treatment--as disempowering as they are ineffective--might in fact be part of the underlying problem, Husain took part in an experimental psylocibin treatment study. Where the medical model typically tries to fix the difficult non-eater, this trial opened her mind to the idea that there might be more to fix beyond the self--that our relationship with food might be closely entwined with our outlook on the world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough five chapters taking in hunger, restriction, gorging, feeding, and the making of political demands, Husain turns away from thinking about how people are shaped by food to think instead about how food can inspire people to reshape the world. Each chapter searches for reasons to eat and live through histories ranging from pus-drinking medieval nuns to Black Panther breakfast programs; from 1950s lesbian dinner parties to modern-day Gazan food bloggers. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn a culture that insists \"you are what you eat,\" and makes every bite a fraught moral choice, Husain argues that we will only feel truly nourished when we can eat in the spirit of restoring a collective right to food, long eroded over centuries of systems and narratives that have normalized deprivation.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmber Husain is a writer based in South London, UK. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eTell Me How You Eat\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMeat Love\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eReplace Me\u003c\/i\u003e. Her essays on politics, literature, and art have been published in \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBaffler\u003c\/i\u003e, and more. She has a PhD from UCL in the history of art and mind-body medicine in late-20th-century Britain. She teaches history of art, creative writing, and criticism. Visit AmberHusain.com for more information.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 8.6 x 5.7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 24, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51984105242925,"sku":"9781668060315","price":27.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/gsc_lxlZ3t9781668060315.webp?v=1776081998","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/tell-me-how-you-eat-food-power-and-the-will-to-live-hardcover","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}