Coffee Musings - 021608

I'm hanging out in the Columbia Mall in Maryland with my twin as she studies for the bar. This book in the picture I borrowed from the Silver Spring branch of the Montcomery County Public Library, and it keeps my interest. It was one of the 2007 top books on the Washington Post list. Also on that list was Ralph Ellison: A Biography. I would recommend that book, and I posted a review on Next Stop Graduate School. I started The Unnatural History of the Sea, but I couldn't finish that. It was on the Washington Post list, also. I didn't get past page 50 with that one.

With this book I'm already trying to find the contemporary social activities that mirror what occured in Edith Wharton's time. For instance, currently the food pedigree is slightly different than it was then. Sure, food was praised for where it came from, and how it was cut etc, but did people care if it was organic or not? Probably not, because the huge use of pesticides didn't come into agribusiness until after World War II when the chemicals used in war started to be used on a war with the earth.