One birthday dinner at Melbourne's fanciest restaurant at age nine was all it took for Besha Rodell to get hooked on fine dining.
She turned that obsession into a career, becoming a James Beard Award winning food critic for LA Weekly, The Age, and The New York Times.
Besha Rodell's new memoir goes beyond restaurant reviews. It's an unflinching account of navigating a high-pressure, male-dominated world where every meal feeds deeper questions of self-worth, longing, and the drive to belong.
It's called "Hunger Like a Thirst: From Food Stamps to Fine Dining, A Restaurant Critic Finds Her Place at the Table".
Besha Rodell. Photo: Supplied by Kristoffer Paulsen
