thefourthvine 's review for:

A Square Meal: A Culinary History of the Great Depression by Andrew Coe, Jane Ziegelman

3.5

informative sad medium-paced

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I finished this and sort of enjoyed reading it, but it was really, really infuriating. This is definitely the book to read if you want to have extensive, rage-driven fantasies about traveling back in time and punching certain presidents in the face, and it's also the book to read if you want to be depressed about how little has changed and how we're making the same damn mistakes all over again 100 years later. I definitely did not want either of those things, but I found the book interesting enough to deal with them.

(But, UGH. So much leftover rage. SO MUCH.)