Member Reviews
I wanted to love this. I’ll admit, I was drawn in because I remembered David Moscow from “Newsies,” but it was just so hard to get into this audiobook. It was a bit bland and I really had to work to pay attention to it. Perhaps it’s better in written form, but, as much as it pains me, I can’t recommend the audiobook.
I do not believe that my review gives a lot of spoilers but it will give a little bit of an idea of some of the chapters in the book. Please be aware.
I am reviewing the audiobook for From Scratch by David Moscow read by the author. As I've only watched a few episodes of his show on cable television I was intrigued to see that he had written a book regarding it. I learned quite a bit about the author and his preface when he was explaining why he decided to write the book. Although it was voice was lacking and inflection of it and was a little bit bland to begin with, he did increase his excitement and his voice as he was reading the story to us.
I believe he improved greatly after the first chapter. He did take us a little bit into some of his different experiences gaining foods and how that related to his personal life. I learned he has a definite love now for oysters. He also touched a little bit on the history and how it affects different people in different situations and different countries.
I felt that when it came from transitioning from the preface to chapter 1 chapter 2 so on down the line that he did it somewhat seamlessly. He seemed to stumble a little bit from the preface to chapter 1 and a little bit from chapter 1 to chapter 2 but then I feel like you found his rhythm and was very engaging afterwards. I would definitely suggest picking this book up and learning a little bit more about foraging for the foods that you utilizing your cooking.
He goes very much in depth as to why this is so important for us. Definitely suggest picking up a copy either in print form or as an audiobook and giving it a chance.