Last summer, I decided to share the pleasure of my required school reading with Leo by making him suffer through Freakonomics . Such a bad book. The problem is that it is so much fun when you’re reading it; but then if you stop and think about it… Anyway, turn about is fair play, so we followed this up with Joanne Chen’s The Taste of Sweet: Our Complicated Love Affair with Our Favorite Treats . Like Freakonomics , this book is breezy and enjoyably written but, happily, it lacks the
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The Taste of Sweet: Our Complicated Love Affair with Our Favorite Treats (Book Review)




Tue, Aug 4, 2009
Food & Cooking