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Taste Makers: Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America
Taste Makers: Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America | Mayukh Sen
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Who's really behind America's appetite for foods from around the globe? This group biography from an electric new voice in food writing honors seven extraordinary women, all immigrants, who left an indelible mark on the way Americans eat today. Taste Makers stretches from World War II to the present, with absorbing and deeply researched portraits of figures including Mexican-born Elena Zelayeta; a blind chef; Marcella Hazan, the deity of Italian cuisine; and Norma Shirley, a champion of Jamaican dishes.In imaginative, lively prose, Mayukh Sen--a queer, brown child of immigrants--reconstructs the lives of these women in vivid and empathetic detail, daring to ask why some were famous in their own time, but not in ours, and why others shine brightly even today. Weaving together histories of food, immigration, and gender, Taste Makers will challenge the way readers look at what's on their plate--and the women whose labor, overlooked for so long, makes those meals possible.
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Kristy_K
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Mehso-so

2.5⭐️

#botm

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Soubhiville
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#weeklyforecast @Cinfhen

I‘m trying very hard to get into the tagged book for my bookclub meeting this Friday, but I don‘t like the writing style and might bail 😔😩. I hate bailing on a BC read.

Almost done with Madly, Deeply, which will make me sad.

Just starting The Women Could Fly, looking forward to it!

And All the Living etc. is for another BC, hope it‘s better!

Have a great reading week!

Cinfhen I also hate bailing on bookclub books🥹and the tagged book actually sounds fascinating BUT ….if it‘s not working, it‘s not working #AllHailTheBail 2y
IamIamIam I so get that! I joined a book club that reads very popular book club type books AND romances, which are so not for me... It's been a struggle these last few months! It also reminded me of why I started my own book club all those years ago!!! 2y
Prairiegirl_reading My book club has a rule that if you‘ve already read a book you can‘t suggest it so no one is insulted when someone doesn‘t like a book they love. I suggested one once that I could only read 70 pages (and I really pushed myself to get that far). I went to the meeting and said this was so boring, I couldn‘t get into it and I‘m sorry I suggested it but not everyone felt that way. I think it‘s part of book club for there to be dissenting opinions. 2y
TEArificbooks I hate bailing on a book club book too, but I read that whole book last year and hated every minute of it. I hated the writing and he argued against himself throughout. He was trying to point out women that influenced our food but at the end of each chapter he pointed out all these other women that were more famous more influential. Drove me nuts. Just bail. 2y
Soubhiville @TEArificbooks thank you for that! I don‘t feel bad about bailing on books I‘m reading “for fun” but this is harder. I see reviews on here aren‘t good… I‘m going to give it just a bit longer but I don‘t expect to finish it. 2y
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Soubhiville
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Does anyone else get a chuckle out of it when by coincidence two of your current reads have pretty similar covers?

Almost finished with Sing, but I keep taking breaks because it‘s so emotional.

Taste Makers is for bookclub, meeting next Friday so I need to dig in.

Tamra Yes, sometimes it‘s a stack! 😜 2y
DimeryRene I love it when you‘re just reading two books that you thought were different and all of a sudden they have really similar plot lines. 🤯 2y
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Kajohnson
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Cross posting my Goodreads review here: I was so excited for the topic and perspective this book was marketed to have. Some bits of the writing really had such charm and warmth - others were dry. After reading the first 70ish pages (I‘m debating DNF-ing altogether), the takeaway I have on the authors writing is that it seems like he took a bullet point list of facts and dates and just translated them into paragraphs.

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Kajohnson
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7 pages in and already so excited to read all these stories ❤️ #tastemakers #botm #foodhistory

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Christine
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I really enjoyed this! Felt like the perfect audiobook for one of the most food-focused times in American culture. It had a wonderfully feminist tone (and was written by a man! Yay, we should all be feminists!). I appreciated the diversity of women represented, including those with disabilities. And I loved Tovah Ott's vibrant, sometimes passionate narration.

Hooked_on_books I love it when men are feminists! We won‘t make any progress without more men being feminists! 3y
Christine @Hooked_on_books Yes!! 💪❤️ 3y
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