A review by thuglibrarian
The Meth Lunches: Food and Longing in an American City by Kim Foster

5.0

Author Kim Foster is a James Beard award-winning food essayist and has written a LOT about food including the industry of it, how to eat in a city, charcuteries and much more. This book is a look at the intersection of food, the homeless populations and how drug addiction and how relations between all it: think of it as a Ven diagram in book form. It seems like I would read a few pages, then put it down to go down the rabbit hole to investigate what she'd written. I've not read a book is long time where I've been compelled to do this. Readers will learn how social services, child protective services and even the origins of the misdemeanor as an offense to hold people down, in order to control them. Readers will also learn about compassion. So much compassion. Did I agree with everything that Foster wrote? Certainly not, but that's where true learning comes from.

Highly recommend.

* I read an advance copy and was not compensated.