"I swear never to be profound, pedantic, or pretentious." Shobhaa De opens her endearing book by saying, "I pledge not to be three things?profound, pompous, and pretentious." It's a commitment that India's most well-known author keeps in her humorous memoir about the year coming up to her historic 75th birthday. She tells us about solo travel, feasting (and fasting) with family and friends, the triumphs and losses that come with ageing, the vagaries and vulnerabilities of being a writer, and, above all, how food connects people in the most unexpected places and delightful ways. She does this with her trademark exuberance and keen observations firmly in place. From where to find the most delicious lassi in Jaipur, her obsession with kasundi and conversations with a Nobel Laureate who is a gourmet to M.F. Husain's last food khwaish and what's served at Aamir Khan's dinner table, Shobhaa takes us into the dining rooms of politicians, artists and celebrities, to festivals and parties and other social events, and, more privately, into her home, where food is always the prime subject of conversation. In Insatiable, Shobhaa reminds us of the many delights and disappointments that the banquet of life offers, even as she examines the shared emotional hunger for happiness and love that binds us all.