I thought In Defense of Food had some important and interesting information in it. I was suprised at how much of the food we buy today at the store is barely even food anymore. I didn't realize how many un-natural ingredients were in the common food items that everyone buys in the supermarket. Now that we have gotten into the so-called Western Diet, it will be difficult to try to go to eating the natural and real foods that people ate before they tried to make everything so healthy by putting so many extra things in them.
Though I did like the points that the book made, they could have been made in a shorter amount of time. It seemed like the author was very repetitive and stayed on the same point for a long time, when you already understood it the first time he explained it. It was a difficult and slow book to read, but it did have very interesting parts in it. Some parts of the book were much more interesting than others. Over all, I thought the book was slow, but it was important to read.
Yes, I agree it was really repetitive. The interesting parts, to me, are the ones I seemed to remember more. It was informative, but I didn't even comprehend on some of the things he was trying to say because in my mind he kept dragging on and on with the same stuff.
ReplyDeleteGood post, Bennett. I particularly like your organization here - one paragraph on strengths and one on the book's drawbacks. Work on expanding your free post a bit.
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