Andrea Oskis explores how our food determines our relationships in her book ‘The Kitchen Shrink’
Author Andrea Oskis explores the psychological connection between food, family, and relationships in her book 'The Kitchen Shrink'. The work utilizes attachment theory to analyze how personal histories and cultural backgrounds influence our eating habits and emotional bonds.
Why it matters
It provides a unique psychological perspective on how everyday habits like eating are deeply rooted in human attachment and generational experiences.
Among millions of books — recipe books, food memoirs — that jostle for attention in the cookbook arena, Andrea Oskis’s The Kitchen Shrink - How the food we eat reveals who we are - and how we love , has the tenacity of a long-distance runner. What it discusses about food, relationships, family and home stays with you long after the last page has been turned.
Andrea, speaking from London, tells me how her Greek Cypriot roots influenced not only what she ate as a child and who she loved, but also her work as a psychologist and psychotherapist.
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