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Excellent coherent overview of French culinary history

Revisado: 06-10-19

Steinberger gives a well done and coherent piece reviewing the evolution of the French culinary tradition, diving into insightful vignettes on key milestones. It really helps an American to cut through the French hubris on its own culture.

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Décent overarching review of coffee history digressing into its American commercialization

Revisado: 05-23-19

Maybe it’s not the author’s fault, maybe it’s the dehumanizing consumerism of America that makes its story in this book seem more like a litany of chronological facts or belabored book report rather than investigative inquiry or curiosity. But in any case the book is packed with good facts but leaves you wanting to understand how coffee mingled with the American human imagination and not just how it was marketed by industry leaders.

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Good sweeping overview in tolerable narrative

Revisado: 04-14-19

Amusing way (old British dude narrating the memoirs of an old British dude) to get a shallow but broad smear of the development of France into a nation.

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