America's Food: What You Don't Know About What You Eat
by Harvey Blatt
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Author: Harvey BlattEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-10-31
ISBN: 026202652X
Number of pages: 384
Publisher: The MIT Press
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Book Review: Packed full of information, lacking a good story
Summary: 3 Stars
There are many books out there that attempt to tackle the story of America's Food System (Nestle, Pollan, Schlosser) but what sets this one apart is the sheer scope. America's Food: What You Don't Know About What You Eat covers an enormous amount of information.
While other books focus on telling a story or taking you on a journey through the food system, this book is laid out like a long school report. Page after page of statistics, quotes and graphs swim in front of your eyes and, I admit, it takes some focus to put the numbers into a meaningful story. America's Food is lumped together by topic and reads like a student listing the facts about their chosen subject, so while you might find a more interesting story reading about the Corn Nation in The Omnivores Dilemma, you won't find nearly as much information about the world of corn as you will in this book, and for that reason alone, I give it 3 stars. If this book covered less territory, I would not recommend it at all.
Blatt does a superb job of giving you all of the facts that you could possibly use with very little opinion or conjecture, but without much story or life either.
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