Reviews for Sources of the West Special Edition for History; the University of Akron

The average rating for Sources of the West Special Edition for History; the University of Akron based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-01-05 00:00:00 Depalle Janick This is a comprehensive and lively enough look at food and drink across time in America. How much you enjoy it may depend on how interested you are in food history in general. Its best qualities are not in sustained or colorful narrative, but in lists of foods and descriptions of regional and temporal shifts in the American diet. So it pre-supposes a certain level of interest in the subject per se; it is not necessarily a book which will awake that interest in you if you do not already have it. But if the subject of food history and/or of American food history in particular interests you you are likely to enjoy this book and find it very informative, even satisfying.

Review # 2 was written on 2017-07-13 00:00:00 Jeff Bussey Although this book was packed with information I found it incredibly hard to read. It often went on in a list like way making it hard to stay focused or retain the information. I am someone who reads quite dry non fiction regularly and still found this one to be a bit on the boring side. However, as a reference book, it has more than a few interesting facts in it.