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Three Squares: The Invention Of The American Meal (2013)

by Abigail Carroll(Favorite Author)

3.27 of 5 Votes: 4

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Basic Books

review 1: I agree with the reviewer below who suggests this would be a better article than book. This is a very shallow take on almost 400 years of American food history. Not nearly enough breadth or details. The author gives us some interesting facts, but it didn't really hold my interest. It ends with two personal narratives, yet fails to mention Michael Pollan, the refutation of the low-fat and low-carb food crazes, or the far to table movement.
review 2: I haven't read such a delightful pinata of fun facts in a long time. The ways that we take meals (as meals) for granted and the social history of how lunch was invented, how dinner became a time for instructional recreation rather than stuffing our mouths, how snacking became stigmatized and then normalized, all of i... moret is really quite fascinating, although I wonder why Carroll, after all of her social construction, seems to advocate the Victorian model at the end: family dinners, and no snacking. Wow, so interesting. less

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