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Bread, Wine, Chocolate

the Slow Loss of Foods We Love
Feb 22, 2016WorthyOwl rated this title 2 out of 5 stars
The author's voice is extremely obnoxious. She inserts her political views into EVERYTHING - and there are a very painful few pages where she goes on and on about the Sikh religion - isn't this a book about FOOD? Also, parts of this book read like the script for a World Vision commercial. Some of the people she interviewed are really interesting but any time the author starts off on a monologue it was VERY hard not to skip ahead. Really glad I got this book out from the library and didn't buy it. If you read this book my recommendation is to read only the first two sections on Wine and Chocolate, the Coffee one is okay too. The others are *very* weak. This book gets 2/5 stars, it would have gotten 3/5 stars if the author could have stayed on topic at the least. Also, the book could have used some more editing, clearly the author doesn't have English as a first language and sometimes her sentences were unintentionally ambiguous and she uses idioms incorrectly e.g. "In the dead of summer" is not an expression, she was trying to use "in the dead of winter" but applied it to the summertime which makes no sense.