2024 the best thing i ever eat review
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An awardwinning essayist explores the American relationship with food, discussing how private and public attitudes, and tastes, have changed over the course of time, and explains how these transformations reflect the constantly changing American identity. 12,500 first printing.
Publisher : Riverhead Hardcover (January 24, 2000)
Language : English
Hardcover : 320 pages
ISBN-10 : 1573221309
ISBN-13 : 978-1573221306
Reading age : 18 years and up
Item Weight : 1.05 pounds
Dimensions : 6 x 1 x 8.75 inches
Reviewer: TAC
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Thought provoking
Review: This is a thought provoking, wonderful, in-depth look at the food we eat and the recent and ancient history of where it comes from. Also celebrates the joy of cooking and eating. A philosophy and theology of food? Or just her meanderings? No matter. It is great food for thought.
Reviewer: Lazy Day Gardener
Rating: 2.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Not my cup of tea....
Review: Sallie Tisdale's The Best Thing I Ever Tasted: The Secret of Food is a collection of personal essays on Americans and their eating habits.I enjoyed the earlier essays; it was interesting to read about the influence of the big corporations on what women buy and how they cook it, even in how we view our own roles in our familes. Who hasn't heard and smirked over 'Nothing says lovin' like somethin' from the oven'? And I'm old enough to remember when no one was smirking.Her essays on the evils of fast food were interesting if not especially informative.But when she got the to the section on Americans and diet and began blaming corporate America for our obession with diet, I was ready to talk back. Her conclusion seem to be that since the advertising world was pushing thin, that it's okay to eat whatever. Sallie, I have no plans to grace the cover of Vogue but health is a motivating factor in my diet. Convince my doctor that I need to gain 10 pounds and I will.Too much personal opinion and too little objectivity.
Reviewer: Sue Moran
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Didn't know what to make of this rambling book.
Review: I enjoyed reading her musings but the book didn't cohere for me. I need "boring" books to read before sleep, and this fit the bill. My biggest criticism has to do with how she throws out opinion after opinion all over creation. I couldn't separate facts from opinions.
Reviewer: Guillaume F. Rochat
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: the sanity of enjoying meals
Review: Ms Tisdale has written for us a most sensitive, intelligent and well researched personal account of her relation to food in our present society. With so many others who have come to see the hate/love relationship we have towards what should be a high point of daily life, she has touched upon the delights that can be had from a well thought-out meal without torturing ourselves about the high pollution of pre-prepared foods nor about the amount of calories, fats or additives that each 'new' scientific discovery tells us to be aware of. One would almost get the feeling that Ms Tisdale tells us: 'dare to live'. I highly recommend this book for lifting up your 'hunger' spirits and I have bought several copies for friends. PS The averse reactions of this wonderfully warm and loving book speak for themselves as obviously Ms Tisdale gets often too close for comfort.
Reviewer: A. L. Kirchhoff
Rating: 2.0 out of 5 stars
Title: less about food than a feminist critique
Review: this book was not so much about food and the best things ever tasted than it is about the author's feminist views about cooking and women's plight in the kitchen. disappointing. a much better read is "last chance to eat" by Gina Mallet.
Reviewer: Bob Dannsig
Rating: 1.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Wretched, pedantic and boring as heck
Review: Tisdale is a hack at best and nothing she writes has much to do with life in general. She writes as if she's bothered with the process, less a critic and more a condescending harridan with a lot of words at her disposal. She certainly needs an editor but from what I gather, she's too difficult to be bothered. Bullheaded, opinionated and obstinate..she is definitely a bore. I would recommend any other book about food except this one. She should stick with what she thinks she knows: pretending to be a bisexual and being a bad parent.
Reviewer: Melinda B
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Not my mother's cup of tea, but ...
Review: After reading the first few chapters I told my mother about this wonderful book I was reading, and said I'd pass it along once I was done. I later realized that she would probably feel put on the defensive by my recommendation and wouldn't enjoy the book at all.Why? Because Tisdale asks her readers to reflect upon things many Americans don't want to think about. That the decision about what to put on (or leave off) the table for dinner might be in any way influenced by advertising, social history or the government isn't something my mother really wants to consider.I have always counted on Tisdale to make me think about everyday life differently, and this book is no exception. I found it to be well researched and a thoroughly enjoyable read. I believe it would be great for people interested in gender studies, American studies and sociology.