On Hunger

Common opinion has it that hunger is the physiological need to eat, whereas appetite is framed as just a desire to eat, driven by emotional or sensory pleasure rather than bodily need. We see this in the division between nutrition and gastronomy, or between food as fuel and food as pleasure.

Ruby Tandoh • Eat Up: Food, Appetite and Eating What You Want

Recognizing the connections between a culture’s food and its inequities and injustices apparently catalyzes an extreme reaction: utter removal of the self from the corrupt system. (Chris Kraus via Emmeline Clein’s Dead Weight)

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