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A review by big_goose
The United States of Arugula: How We Became a Gourmet Nation by David Kamp
2.0
I don't really care where all these people put their penises. By focusing on gossipy crap about celebrity chefs, the actual story of America's changing tastes is mostly ignored by this book, which sort of just assumes that everybody is sort of just magically influenced by the insular food world.
I was hoping for more facts and information about actual changes in the way that people prepared, ate, and thought about food, so I think I mostly just wanted this book to be a different one than it actually was. It's pretty entertaining and breezy, so if you really want a book about who said mean things about who in the 1970s food world, it's probably great.
I was hoping for more facts and information about actual changes in the way that people prepared, ate, and thought about food, so I think I mostly just wanted this book to be a different one than it actually was. It's pretty entertaining and breezy, so if you really want a book about who said mean things about who in the 1970s food world, it's probably great.