Sweetness #9: A Novel
Format: audiobook
ASIN: B00M8JC23O
Publish date: 2014-08-19
Publisher: Hachette Audio
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Humor,
Food And Drink,
Food,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Historical Fiction,
Adult,
Health,
Contemporary,
Fiction
Wow, this one hit home. And I’m not sure if it’s because I’m from New Jersey, my sister is a scientist, or I am a fan of Splenda, but any combination of those things would have piqued my interest in this book. I wasn’t so sure about the New Jersey thing. Partway through the book I convinced myself...
I've long touted that artificial sweeteners are poison. Here's a novel that takes that basic premise, brings it into the world of fiction, and watches to see what happens when one of those sweeteners is found to be a real problem. Read my review of this excellent debut novel here https://tcl-bookrev...
Here’s what I love about SWEETNESS #9: introducing me to Stephan Eirik Clark. His storytelling has a special flavor (sorry about that pun) that is fascinating and stands on its own. As the story progressed over decades of time, I felt the characters change. I wasn’t just a witness, but I could sympa...
It is a truth universally acknowledged—at least it should be—that the Western diet is crap. So it's ironic that I read Stephan Eirik Clark's Sweetness #9 just a month after reading In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan. The book is a fictional memoir of a flavorist who did some of the original testin...
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