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96 pp.
| Lerner/Millbrook |
November, 1998 |
LibraryISBN 0-7613-0354-5$$23.90
(4)
YA
Illustrated by
Sharon Lane Holm.
Meltzer offers readers a collection of informative, loosely connected essays on the subject of food and its relationship to and effect on society. The essays are geared to an older audience than the brightly colored, cluttered jacket would suggest, and the book's layout is unattractive and reminiscent of nonfiction texts of the 1970s. Bib., ind.