Spiritual hunger and thirst is that insatiable craving after spiritual things that can be characterized by the attitude of a starving man in the physical realm.
How do we develop a spiritual appetite? The solution is EAT.
Exercise - the process of spiritually allowing the nourishment you have to be turned into muscle rather than fat.
Ask - the process of securing from God both the appetite and the capacity for spiritual truth.
Taste - the process of personally experiencing the righteousness of God.
Incidentally, that righteousness in itself creates the hunger for itself.