The average rating for Edible Secrets: A Food Tour of Classified US History based on 2 reviews is 2.5 stars.
Review # 1 was written on 2012-01-07 00:00:00 Steve Howden I keep going back and forth on whether or not this book delivers on what is advertised. I think in many ways it does, and yet it didn't completely satisfy my expectations. I think I wanted more classified stories from US history where food plays a major role, as it does in the poisoning attempts on Castro; and there simply may not be a whole lot of these declassified food documents available. Otherwise, as is the case with many books from small publishers, this suffers from an abundance of typos. Which is a shame. |
Review # 2 was written on 2019-08-28 00:00:00 George Wiemers It seems this book doesn't know what it wants to be. Light-hearted satire? Radical, subversive, serious info? It goes back and forth between being a little silly and pretty darn preachy. And then out of nowhere it talks about recording artists doing "backmasking" and I can't tell if the author really thinks The Beatles put hidden backwards messages in their music or if this is meant as humorous satire. A frustrating read, to say the least. |
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