Title: A Modest Proposal
Author: Johnathan Swift
Type: Non-Fiction
Page Count/Review Word Count: 58
Rating: 4/5
It’s a good job that this is political satire because otherwise it would quite frankly be terrifying. Swift’s “modest” proposal is to solve the Irish potato famine by eating children. It made me laugh, though.
Title: Eating
Author: Nigella Lawson
Type: Non-Fiction
Page Count/Review Word Count: 136
Rating: 3/5
This would definitely be your cup of tea if you’re an omnivore or a carnivore, but seeing as I’m a herbivore (I’m vegan, not a dinosaur), there wasn’t much for me here. It was very well written and you could tell that Lawson is passionate about food (as if there was any doubt), but I couldn’t use any of the recipes. There were maybe two that I could veganise, but even then.
What’s cool though is that the book is called Eating rather than Cooking for a reason. While it does include recipes, it’s more like an overall approach to eating and I could agree with that, even if I don’t agree with her dietary choices. Yep.
