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A review by dropkickdisco
A Square Meal: A Culinary History of the Great Depression by Andrew Coe, Jane Ziegelman
4.0
I found the information in this book to be fascinating, but at times difficult to follow. I approached this book knowing little to nothing about food in the great depression, and I came out feeling more educated yet being unable to put together a real "timeline" in my head of the information and how it came to be.
This book reads as one that didn't spend enough time being edited. The authors often jump around from topic to topic, and I very often found myself saying "they just said all of this back a chapter or two ago. Why are they repeating it as if it were new information?"
The raw information, facts, inclusion of recipes, and pictures are what bring this review up to 4 stars and made me truly enjoy it. But what ultimately keeps it from being 5 stars is the repetition, the disorganization, as well as a lack of a real "big picture" or cohesive "story".
This book reads as one that didn't spend enough time being edited. The authors often jump around from topic to topic, and I very often found myself saying "they just said all of this back a chapter or two ago. Why are they repeating it as if it were new information?"
The raw information, facts, inclusion of recipes, and pictures are what bring this review up to 4 stars and made me truly enjoy it. But what ultimately keeps it from being 5 stars is the repetition, the disorganization, as well as a lack of a real "big picture" or cohesive "story".