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Eat The City: A Tale Of The Fishers, Foragers, Butchers, Farmers, Poultry Minders, Sugar Refiners, Cane Cutters, Beekeepers, Winemakers, And Brewers Who Built New York (2012)

by Robin Shulman(Favorite Author)

3.72 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0307719057 (ISBN13: 9780307719058)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Crown

review 1: Very interésting read that gives You a "taste" of New York that we seldom hear about. Sometimes her history lessons seemed to drone on for so long I couldnt seem to focus, but other than that I feel like it was a very creative and informative book on the agricultural side of New York then and now. Especially enjoyes the interviews with the people who are Going back to their roots and planting gardens, gathering honey, etc, in "the concrete jungle".
review 2: A nonfiction book about people in New York City today and through history who grow vegetables, butcher, fish, brew beer, make wine, and keep bees. The point of the book is that although NYC seems like the last place on earth where farming/fishing/butchering, etc., can be done (because it is so very built u... morep and urban), there is actually a lot more food production going on than meets the eye.The book focuses on a number of people and their different pursuits, and some are more or less eccentric. One guy started growing vegetables as a front for his illegal gambling business, but grew to like the farming more and more and the gambling less and less. There are a series of hipster millennials brewing beer and butchering animals. There are people who fish daily (in NYC? Yes!) because they've never known anything else. And many other stories.It was overall an interesting read, although I found certain parts more and less interesting. less

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