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JUST A LITTLE MORE AND PERFECT!

Revisado: 08-02-18

The story was brilliant, the characters were so New Orleans -- I found myself relating them to people I knew -- probably based on real people anyway and the performance would have been absolutely perfect had the narrator accurately pronounced street names and other names as pronounced by true New Orleanians!

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GREAT

Revisado: 05-17-18

If you can ignore the references to white privileged and opinion and stick to the history and facts -- great book. I don't feel the author has a personal history in New Orleans. But overall it's worth the listen.

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SO NEW ORLEANS!!!!!!

Revisado: 05-17-18

As a New Orleanian this book took me back in time. I could relate people and places in the book to stories told my by parents and grandparents and great aunts and uncles. I knew many of the people while growing up in New Orleans or my family knew them. I could imagine it all in my minds eye. Very authentic, well written and narrated. I wish I could have known Norma --what she described as night life in New Orleans is exactly what I heard from my parents like the Blue Room. I felt her pain seeing how the Quarter changed as my parents did in the late 60s and 70s.. I also wish for the glamour of their days. When my parents went out it was to the Blue Room. They spoke of Phil Harris. The Black Orchid in Gentilly -- Tony Angelo's place -- Daddy hung out there as a young man. Madam Dora Russo last house on Bayou Rd. was located across the street from my Great Aunt's beauty salon. Dora brought the new girls from the country to the salon and had my Aunts change the color of their hair. My Aunt said they were all Ladies! I could go on and on. Fantastic life story - What a Woman!!

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BORING

Revisado: 05-17-18

The narrator listed the numbered paranormal events in a monotone voice for half the book. I could have made up a list as such. Then the other half was OPINION of what they were. i kept waiting for the E & L Warren investigation which was a bleep, literally a paragraph. When was this woman going to bring in SOMEONE to investigate this house. Finally there was one who kept knocking religion, The Bible, and other paranormal investigators -- saying he could do it better and had a 100% success rate. They even hawked their website. I got the impression this was all about selling a book. The ABSOLUTE worst book I have listened to. If I could I would ask for my money back!

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More facts; less Liberal/Socialist/Progressive ref

Revisado: 03-10-18

What did you like best about Food: A Cultural Culinary History? What did you like least?

I liked the information rooted in fact on the origin of foods and his explanation of how migration and trade routes brought spices and foods to other parts of the world. The constant slights toward the Catholic church and Christianity in general and the references to every 20th Century Socialist/Marxist/Progressive was annoying. I shouldn't be surprised -- this is a college lecture!!

Could you see Food: A Cultural Culinary History being made into a movie or a TV series? Who should the stars be?

no

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EXCELLENT STORY BUT....

Revisado: 01-29-18

Would you listen to Krampus again? Why?

Excellent story, but WHY must the ONE GOD be referred to as SHE?????? A total TURNOFF! Why must people who believe in the God of Abraham always get the in-your-face intolerance from the enlightened group. I get it; it's fiction! There was no explanation for the change in gender so WHY? It's disgusting! You can't just enjoy a story and lose yourself from the noise of everyday life without the agenda crap oozing its way into every aspect of life. Just a stupid decision. Otherwise, I thoroughly enjoyed the book.

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