A review by rembrandt1881
Grocery: The Buying and Selling of Food in America by Michael Ruhlman

2.0

There was a lot of potential for this book to really discuss the food system and how we eat in this country. In fact a lot of the beginning of the book was either a good primer or a nice introduction into the aspects of the grocery store, and food production. However, too much of this book focuses on one certain type of customer, an upper middle class one and not the entire system. The Market that the author embedded himself in is not necessarily the same kind most americans get their groceries from and thus it isn't representative of how we actually eat. I would have liked more about how the working class and working poor differ in the food quality and services they get vs the subject of his book. At the end it left me wanting something that was maybe more technical and encompassing.