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archiveghost's review against another edition
challenging
hopeful
informative
reflective
sad
fast-paced
3.75
fruitonthemind's review against another edition
challenging
dark
funny
informative
reflective
sad
medium-paced
5.0
sarahareinhard's review against another edition
5.0
Wow. Maybe I'll never eat shrimp again.
Recommended by a good friend, and I'm glad I read it. But don't get me wrong. Nothing about this is easy to think about or face. Maybe our eating is indicative of so much more -- of the wealth we have, of what we ignore, of how we demand so much. What we have and enjoy is only possible with sacrifice, and that sacrifice is invisible to most of us. The world loses in so many ways.
What's frustrating to me about a book like this is that there's all this information and insight...but what's the next step? How do you affect change to something on such a massive scale?
I will be chewing on this for a while. This book should be more than just new information for me. It should inspire some sort of action...
Recommended by a good friend, and I'm glad I read it. But don't get me wrong. Nothing about this is easy to think about or face. Maybe our eating is indicative of so much more -- of the wealth we have, of what we ignore, of how we demand so much. What we have and enjoy is only possible with sacrifice, and that sacrifice is invisible to most of us. The world loses in so many ways.
What's frustrating to me about a book like this is that there's all this information and insight...but what's the next step? How do you affect change to something on such a massive scale?
I will be chewing on this for a while. This book should be more than just new information for me. It should inspire some sort of action...
jaqjak's review against another edition
As other reviews have said, the writer is self-absorbed and focuses more on his own perspective and judgements. I wanted a well-researched book about grocery stores, but instead heard the author make quips about how boring some of the subject matter is, share the weird xenophobic takes of the Trader Joe's founder, and be judgemental and fatphobic towards truckers. I'll read something else.
montigneyrules's review against another edition
1.0
#readingchallenge2022 (my book recommended by a favorite author- Mary Roach)
I expected more about groceries.
I was hoping the author would explore more about the nitty gritty life of a groceries- how supermarkets are created, designed, managed- the book explored a higher level concept of the lifecycle of groceries, focusing on concepts of food creation, preparation, and small focus on the grocery market sales- more high level social ills of the food and less ground floor realism of the grocery store sales-
With that being said, the focuses were very disjointed- exaggerated, dramatized, in places-where the ‘research’ seemed to have taken a large tangent focus, exploring some deeper meaning of food compared to a grocery store focus- more ‘what he found interesting’ in a self-absorbed way compared to what the readers will find interesting along the thesis of the novel vital information way-
i.e back to my ‘I expected more about groceries’ – there was no clear continuity to the topics.
Having watched many documentaries on grocery stores & food sales- I feel I knew all the opportunities the author missed within his research.
I expected more about groceries.
I was hoping the author would explore more about the nitty gritty life of a groceries- how supermarkets are created, designed, managed- the book explored a higher level concept of the lifecycle of groceries, focusing on concepts of food creation, preparation, and small focus on the grocery market sales- more high level social ills of the food and less ground floor realism of the grocery store sales-
With that being said, the focuses were very disjointed- exaggerated, dramatized, in places-where the ‘research’ seemed to have taken a large tangent focus, exploring some deeper meaning of food compared to a grocery store focus- more ‘what he found interesting’ in a self-absorbed way compared to what the readers will find interesting along the thesis of the novel vital information way-
i.e back to my ‘I expected more about groceries’ – there was no clear continuity to the topics.
Having watched many documentaries on grocery stores & food sales- I feel I knew all the opportunities the author missed within his research.