Unveiling the Hidden Forces Shaping Our Relationship with Food: A Provocative Review of Amber Husain’s "Tell Me How You Eat"
And finally, light shines in the darkness when she discovers the Right to Food movement, one informed by the Black Panthers’ revolutionary food program. Through Right to Food, she discovers “occasions where eating felt generative of something beyond myself.”
Early in the book, Husain admits, “I would like to have been able to write one of those books you might have read about the magic of healing through food. Unfortunately, it seems there is nothing inherently healing about it.” Yet by generously sharing her own journey, she emphasizes that healing is possible — just not through lovingly curating every expensive bite like a Food Network chef. With honesty, wit, and her remarkable curiosity, her exploration of eating and not eating, feeding and not feeding helps us envision on our own what all of it could mean for our collective future — a healing that goes beyond the set of numbers that satisfies doctors.
