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Lloyd Dobbler asked this question about Tastes Like Chicken: A History of America's Favorite Bird:
Would this be a seriously penned work or something like Mary Roach? Thank you
LLoyd The title does suggest a quite literal meaning and the book deals with the history of the bird in a thoroughgoing way extending over 10,000 years of T…moreThe title does suggest a quite literal meaning and the book deals with the history of the bird in a thoroughgoing way extending over 10,000 years of Time, unlike Mary Roach who is a real person and writes spooky fiction stuff, weird science and studies having a flavour of social anthropology, all quite eclectic. We should see Tastes Like Chicken as a serious attempt at a very grand documentary work on a favourite food of Americans, I think. I hope this helps!(less)
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by Emelyn Rude (Goodreads Author)
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