Sam’s Reviews > The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats > Status Update
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"Fairchild’s vertiginous fascination with the birds came partly from the coca leaves he had chewed—a remedy to distract the brain from reduced oxygen high above the sea."
Vertiginous: causing or tending to cause dizziness.
I feel like the author was looking for synonyms of giddy (excited) and picked the fanciest sounding one without checking the definition.
And well, awkward sentence anyways.
— Nov 15, 2019 12:39PM
Vertiginous: causing or tending to cause dizziness.
I feel like the author was looking for synonyms of giddy (excited) and picked the fanciest sounding one without checking the definition.
And well, awkward sentence anyways.
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Sam
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"A woman had offered him a puree of the bean, one of his early experiences with the delightful, salty mortar known as hummus."
Mortar? Hmmmm, how did the author arrive at this incorrect term?
Mix to paste (mixture before baking) to paste (glue) to mortar (plaster)?
— Nov 15, 2019 01:52PM
Mortar? Hmmmm, how did the author arrive at this incorrect term?
Mix to paste (mixture before baking) to paste (glue) to mortar (plaster)?
Sam
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"To Lathrop, such a fate was worse than being eaten by a walrus."
Um, ok?
Gotta figure out how to work this phrase into conversation so I can watch people's reactions.
— Nov 13, 2019 08:16PM
Um, ok?
Gotta figure out how to work this phrase into conversation so I can watch people's reactions.
Sam
is 18% done
"Stretching some three thousand miles from coast to coast, from the cold winters of upland Maine to the sweltering summers along the Rio Grande, the United States enjoyed more climatic diversity than anywhere else on the planet."
Sounds like propaganda to me. Come on, the US has more "climactic diversity" than China? Not sure I believe that.
— Nov 13, 2019 07:55PM
Sounds like propaganda to me. Come on, the US has more "climactic diversity" than China? Not sure I believe that.
