the Kitchen Shrink: how food we eat is key to love

From McDonald’s to ‘mum food’, this is Esther Perel meets Nigella Lawson - an eye-opening, fascinating and accessible deep dive into understanding how our stories of love, loss and attachment are connected to the food that we eat, and are written all over our plates. A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARDid you know that the food we eat says a lot about how we love?Psychologist Dr Andrea Oskis shows us how we connect with each other and how we can change our personal ‘recipes’ to have better relationships.Along the way, she also reveals her own food story about love and loss. Inviting us into her therapy room with her patients, she tells us: the real reason why comfort food comforts why dessert isn’t a good idea when you’re stressed why you should never give a bottle of hot sauce to someone who has been rejectedBe prepared to never look at your plate in the same way again.