Their Last Suppers: Legends Of History And Their Final Meals (2010) - Plot & Excerpts
I thought this would be a fun food and history book. It failed on all three parts.The history isn't even Wikipedia level, and many of the last suppers are purely speculative. The recipes vary wildly in descriptive detail and difficulty - the reader that needs a recipe for garlic bread isn't going to be skinning eels or roasting pheasant, you know. They're also not historically accurate. (I doubt General Custer ate beef jerky flavored with soy sauce.) And finally, the idea of actually cooking and serving these "last suppers" is pretty morbid.So, basically, a hot mess. i'm not really sure what to think of this book so far. on the one hand, recipes are pretty cool. dude, i can make a dinner that alexander the great would've enjoyed. that's awesome. at the same time, i find myself being way bummed when reminded of some of the deaths, like princess di or jfk (even though that was before i was born, but anyway...). i get to thinking, what if they had lived longer? what difference might that have made? and then i get into this big existential funk and completely lose interest in the fact that princess di used a blender to make her favorite watercress soup, which seems like a rather unprincess-y thing to do, using a blender...yeah. i dunno.UPDATE: yup. it's a great idea for a book, but i just got so bogged down in being sad about people dying and being pissed at the asshatticus mcdouchebags doing the killing (or just the random twists of fate or circumstance) that it detracted from my experience. "hey, here's this person, and they died, and here's what they ate just before!" in retrospect, yeah, that's kinda weird. i'll stick with the 3 stars, but i'm kinda glad it was only 99 cents in the kindle store...
What do You think about Their Last Suppers: Legends Of History And Their Final Meals (2010)?
I'm planning on trying some of the recipes - that might bump it up a star!
—1995girl
More like a cook book or recipe book, not really my thing.
—abetita
