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1. A Square Meal: A Culinary History of The Great Depression. Amazing book!!
2. A. Lee Martinez
3. Aliens
4. ABBA or Aerosmith
5. Always On My Mind (Pet Shop Boys cover version)

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This is one of my favorite non-fiction books of the year. I knew I'd find the subject matter interesting, but I didn't know it would hit so close to home. Being raise in rural Appalachian Virginia, I regularly ate many foods that got their origins from the Great Depression, but I never realized how far reaching it affected future generation's eating habits. 5 💥💥💥💥💥 out of 5. Highly recommended.

"...and salted pork sandwiches, in which the cooked meat is mixed with any combination of chopped eggs, raw cabbage, cottage cheese and pickles."

I ate this growing up, it was very hearty and filling. Also very tasty.

The Great Depression did create some interesting food combinations.

Interesting, but a bit repetitive.

23/100 for the year.

Today‘s #riotgrams: current read. I‘m fascinated that after WWI, scientists counted steps of farm wives and said “you walked 1/4 mile to make a pie?! Your kitchen should be smaller!” while in 2018, I dance around the kitchen while cooking in an effort to hit my 10k step goal and would *love* a bigger kitchen. I suppose we‘ve come full circle?

I struggled through this book for two months. I guess I expected something different. I wanted more of a study of the everyday persons food, planning and struggle to make it through the hunger that accompanied the years of the depression but this book was more of an overview of program and organizations that were formed to "help" combat hunger and malnutrition ". It ended up being extremely dry reading with interesting bits thrown in.

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Found some shapes in these titles on my #tbr list!
Have you read any of them?

Food and history-two of my favorite things 😊

Well-researched and interesting look at how the American diet was molded by charity, welfare, politics, science, economics, technology, war, and more. Best read or listened to in chunks rather than straight through. Narrated well by Susan Ericksen, but I wish she had been better at signaling quotes. Audiobook (of course) lacks the photos of the print book and the recipes are hard to follow. Giving this a pick (say, 3.7).

Continues to be an interesting listen. Thankful I have access to fresh veggies in winter. #audiobook #nonfiction

Started this in #audiobook today. (Can't find my print copy so no cool photo tonight). So far interesting look at how Americans came to the Standard American Diet, weight trends, food movements, and so on. Good research, but I'm not far enough along to judge whether there is much new here. Narrated by Susan Ericksen, who is easy to listen to, but I'm having a little trouble telling commentary from quoted text.

Library book haul! Went to to main SMPL library today, as the 8th grader needed to get a poetry book for Language Arts. I checked out the tagged book, the rest are from the giveaway cart! (Yes I got through college without reading Kingston.) Upon closer inspection I see on the cover that the author of A Square Meal wrote another book I have read. It was very disappointing--both as a reader and as a historian. Maybe this will just go back 😢

Interesting and it was obvious they did their research but also it felt a bit disorganized. Only glancing mentions of minority populations, an avenue that definitely warrants more exploration, but I think I'll have to do that on my own.

#booktober #booksandsnacks
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Okay, don't take bets. I will definitely be opening this. Maybe today...
Okay, probably today.
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