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Everything but the Squeal: Eating the Whole Hog in Northern Spain ReviewI bought this book because I wanted to travel to Galicia and wanted to get the local scoop on the life, food and culture there. I wanted very much to like this book and was looking forward to a fun read. However, 10+ pages in, I began to get bored as the pace is very slow. It felt like reading someone's rambling travel diary. The insights are not particularly revelatory; neither are the anecdotes. I flipped on and read bits of it here and there, but the tone continued in that rambling, disorganized style.
The book's central idea is that the author goes around Galicia trying different styles of pork dishes. It would have been better as a magazine article or a series of blog posts, but this is a very thick book with small font and no pictures (like a veritable novel!). If this is really nothing but a single-idea book, an editor could have cut half of it, increased the font size, thrown in some recipes and color photos.
The only people who could have pulled this kind of book off are Jeffrey Steingarten and Anthony Bourdain - they are funnier, edgier, throw out more interesting ideas bound together by much tighter prose. I regret spending money on this book. I read about 30 pages of it and gave up. I am still looking for that definitive, well-written book about modern Galicia.
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