Berry’s The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture sounds like a read I would be interested in reading. Thanks for sharing so many! I also enjoy the excerpts and quotations included in your substacks. All the books mentioned sound like I’d enjoy them. Personally I’ve only read 2 books this year. One of which is Anthony Bourdain: Kitchen Confidential. It is beautifully and candidly written. It is drenched in kitchen and food culture, and was quite an emotional read for me as well on many levels. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in
Thanks for the recommendation! I do think you'd enjoy The Unsettling of America, and I think I'd enjoy hearing about the parts you disliked the most. Hah.
Thanks for the recommendations! Definitely gonna have to check those out. Dorothy Day's autobiography is on my list for 2024 after I found it at a used bookstore a few weeks back.
I've wondered the same about Berry. Of course, no good literature is really unique. Streams of thought run through all great writers whether they knew each other or not.
Agreeing with Berry too much had me laughing. The great, common situation for many!
Oh for sure! It takes effort to avoid letting someone as eloquent as Berry get in the way of developing our own convictions!
It is pretty much an impossibility.
For sure—I guess I was missing the word "unduly," lol. And even then...
This was my blunt and dry British humour response :)
Berry’s The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture sounds like a read I would be interested in reading. Thanks for sharing so many! I also enjoy the excerpts and quotations included in your substacks. All the books mentioned sound like I’d enjoy them. Personally I’ve only read 2 books this year. One of which is Anthony Bourdain: Kitchen Confidential. It is beautifully and candidly written. It is drenched in kitchen and food culture, and was quite an emotional read for me as well on many levels. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in
Humanity and Food.
Thanks for the recommendation! I do think you'd enjoy The Unsettling of America, and I think I'd enjoy hearing about the parts you disliked the most. Hah.
And Merry Christmas.
Thanks for the recommendations! Definitely gonna have to check those out. Dorothy Day's autobiography is on my list for 2024 after I found it at a used bookstore a few weeks back.
I've wondered the same about Berry. Of course, no good literature is really unique. Streams of thought run through all great writers whether they knew each other or not.