j3mm4 's review for:

American Terroir: Savoring the Flavors of Our Woods, Waters, and Fields by Rowan Jacobsen

4.75

adventurous funny informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

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I love food. I love food writing. Even with a foundation of that love shaping both the ambient level of information about food in my head and the experience of reading food writing, I have not found so much as a single brief article or essay which had me smiling through the duration of my encounter with it. I smiled constantly reading American Terroir. I laughed aloud multiple times. This book is palpably passionate towards food, infectiously curious and adoring towards it, and cracklingly funny to boot. Though some forays out of the whitest parts of North America, be they short asides or entire chapters, occasionally flirt with a kind of othering exoticism that left a sour taste in my mouth, on the whole, this book confers a level of respect to the producers of the food as well as the food itself that I greatly appreciated. I definitely want to read Jacobsen's Geography of Oysters now.