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The Dinner Diaries: Raising Whole Wheat Kids In A White Bread World (2008)

by Betsy Block(Favorite Author)

3 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1565125703 (ISBN13: 9781565125704)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Algonquin Books

review 1: It's like Block wants to be the Michael Pollan of soccer moms, but she just comes across as snobby, narcissistic, and impossible. For example, she talks to a dietitian who says that championing organic food is the wrong path to improving nutrition in America (you know, because if a kid has eaten a total of 6 different kinds of vegetables in his life and an average of 5 vegetables a week if you include the 4 servings of french fries, pushing for those occasional few carrots to be organic isn't going to improve much for him). Block's response is, "I thought calling organic food elitist was elitist." She also gloats about how healthy her kids are being when they eat falafel for dinner one night. Say Betsy, falafel is deep fried. I don't know why you're so impressed with ... moreyourself about that one.I read a handful of chapters and then just gave up. Clearly I live on a different planet from Ms. Block. She's got nothing to say to me.
review 2: Not quite what I expected. I really got the feeling that she wrote this book because it was 'The Cool Thing' to write about. She mentions a lot of other books, and 'field trips', but I don't get the impression that she really got anything out of them.On the whole, it reads like a Chic-Lit novel - the plucky heroine trying to do 'x' (in this case change her family's diet) with all sorts of opposition, but triumphs in the end (of course) when said family comes to the realization that a healthier diet isn't a bad thing. There are so many other better books on the subject out there already. less

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