One Man's Meat

One Man’s Meat by E. B. White This house, this house now held in Sunday’s fearful grip, is a hundred and twenty years old. I am wondering what Sabbaths it has known. Here where I sit, grandfather H. used to sit, they tell me—always right here. He would be surprised were he here this morning to note t......more

One Man’s Meat is a collection of essays written by White in the late 1930s and early 1940s. White interjects world politics, children’s literature and farming in to this eclectic series of essays that have an eternal quality to them. White’s ability to blend several topics into one coherent essay i......more

After Essays of E.B. White, I couldn't stop. I needed more. I picked up One Man's Meat because it sounded interesting. And it was. The book collects a column that White wrote for Harper's in the early 1940s. Many of the articles are about life on his farm, and I enjoyed those the most. I like the su......more

Hmmm. I thought I would love this as I loved Here Is New York, but for some reason I didn't. This was a collection of essays, some were good, some were not. I found his writing to be somewhat circuitous and hard to follow. Also, I must say I was a little put off. I never like that sort of city boy d......more