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A review by jgaton
A Square Meal: A Culinary History of the Great Depression by Andrew Coe, Jane Ziegelman
3.0
"Everything old is new again."
I could have been reading an overview of contemporary food/economic/social issues. I enjoyed the perspective, and feel like this kind of history is so very helpful for understanding how people behave, just generally.
I felt like the book got kind of aimless in the middle, jumping around both geographically and temporally. Frankly, it dragged. Then, suddenly, it ended. The conclusion was so abrupt and brief that I felt like it belonged to another book. Or to a much shorter essay.
Anyway, I'm glad I read it. It illuminated things about the Great Depression that aren't often part of the usual discourse. It felt shockingly current, politically, in spite of its oddball flaws.
I could have been reading an overview of contemporary food/economic/social issues. I enjoyed the perspective, and feel like this kind of history is so very helpful for understanding how people behave, just generally.
I felt like the book got kind of aimless in the middle, jumping around both geographically and temporally. Frankly, it dragged. Then, suddenly, it ended. The conclusion was so abrupt and brief that I felt like it belonged to another book. Or to a much shorter essay.
Anyway, I'm glad I read it. It illuminated things about the Great Depression that aren't often part of the usual discourse. It felt shockingly current, politically, in spite of its oddball flaws.