by Steve Almond, Oliver Wyman
if you've ever fell obsessively in love with an idea or a thing, then this is the book for you. it's like a love letter written to candy. absolutely obsessively crazily beautiful.
Uno pensaría que yo amaría un libro así. Y es bueno, pero noté que las únicas partes que realmente me interesaron se referían a tipos muy específicos de dulces que puedo reconocer. A tal punto que se te abtoja comerlos inmediatamente. Aunque en general el libro está bien escrito y organizado, sient...
I think I first heard of Steve Almond's Candyfreak: A Journey Through the Chocolate Underbelly of America on Epinions. Having a bit of a sweet tooth myself, and missing more than one of the treats I remember from my childhood, I added it to my Amazon wishlist, and a friend sent it to me for a "just ...
laughing out loud!! OH oh he mentions the Forever Yours, what a bar that was!heads up, author is kind of whiny, but funny!!!
This is a rather amusing book about the authors’ obsession with candy, along with a pilgrimage to four small candy makers that he made in a long weekend. It was a good read, but the author had too many sidelines and is under the impression that if you fail to agree with his tastes, you kind of suck....
Can self-loathing, guilt-ridden liberals please keep inane political commentary/whining to their respective blogs and friends and not include it in a book about the evolution of candy in America? I get it, you hate capitalism, big companies, Bush and any "yokels" who voted for him. Refrain from comi...
+ An affectionate romp through candy nostalgia, not omitting biting commentary on the politics of big corporations vs. independent manufacturers- Frequent forced humorNot the easiest book to read on the treadmill, filled as it is with virt
I'm not actually that big a candy fan, I prefer cake. But it's always interesting to read about someone's obsessions, and Almond is just a little obsessed. Good, sticky fun, and a lot of info about candybars you've never heard of before.
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