A review by peacefulcress
How Carrots Won the Trojan War: Curious (But True) Stories of Common Vegetables by Rebecca Rupp

3.0

I really really wanted to like this book more but it followed a very specific pattern for each chapter to the point that my eyes began scanning for "Thomas Jefferson grew X varieties at Monticello" (which was literally in every chapter almost verbatim). The information was very interesting but it was presented dryly and towards the end I was struggling to get through it. I'm a little sad because the fun tidbits that were there really were good and I wanted more like that.