A review by rogerjpatterson
A History of Food by Maguelonne Toussaint-Samat

2.0

While this covers a variety of interesting topics and the span of human history, the writing is somewhat stream of consciousness and lacks credibility. If it is as accurate in other areas as in the history of wine, with which I am familiar, it is a mere collection of anecdotes, many of which have been discredited by careful research. I finally gave up after I finished the section on wine in favor of other books on the topic which I hope are better researched and more cogently written.