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missbookiverse's review against another edition
I quit reading somewhere around the 2nd chapter. I'm neither a fan of non-fiction books nor of history, so this book just didn't hold much for me. Jackie French managed to make me smile a few times with her funny remarks but all in all the paragraphs just really bored me.
I skipped through the rest of the book, read some interesting parts here and there but all in all this book contains too much information that is repeated in different words and with a different context throughout the book.
I had expected much more from Miss French.
I skipped through the rest of the book, read some interesting parts here and there but all in all this book contains too much information that is repeated in different words and with a different context throughout the book.
I had expected much more from Miss French.
pandemoniumpizza's review
I'd been wanting to read this book years ago because it sounded fascinating. I remember reading a segment about the history of ice cream and all the different nationalities arguing that they themselves invented ice cream. It was really interesting. Being a person who absolutely loves food I adored this book. It not only had history of different foods and some really fascinating facts about them but it also mentioned some really interesting recipes that I would really like to try some day.
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