Customer Review: this wasn't a great movie. bad acting. story was patchy. things would happen with little or poor segway, and you have to think for a sec and then "oh...ok..." it could have been done way better.
Customer Review: This book was recently re-issued by NYRB as part of the series of revived (and ignored/forgotten) "classics". It was favorably (and eloquently) reviewed in the February, 2008 "Atlantic" by Christopher Hitchens and received laudatory ... Read More
Customer Review: This was a wonderful topic for a book -- how Southernness and Jewishness came together in the Jewish kitchen. Cohen Ferris, herself a Jewish woman from a small town in Arkansas, has done exhaustive research, no doubt a labor of love, and has perpetuated ... Read More
Customer Review: In rating a book I'm not always looking for the same thing. "Origins", in my opinion, is primarily a scholarly reference text and that's the sense I rated it. It is not an exciting page-turner but a careful exposition of an important part of Western history. ... Read More
