Hunger hijacks the mind World War II survivor Louis Zamperini (protagonist of the book and movie Unbroken, shown here) went down with his plane over the Pacific Ocean. He and two other crew members drifted for 47 days, subsisting on an occasional bird or a fish. To help pass time, the hunger-driven men recited food recipes or recalled their mothers’ home cooking.

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