Trouble with Brunch Paperback – 19 August 2014

Not as edgy as it could’ve been. Kinda boring.

The premise was intriguing and every now and again the author touched on a legitimate criticism of hipster foodie culture, but too often he fell back to anecdotes of industrial life in Windsor and how much less authentic the Toronto creative class is. There are real issues to explore in foodie culture, the high status but low security of the modern creative class, and authenticity as a class signifier, but this book barely scratched the surface as it jumped from anecdote to unsupported claim. The one way it thoroughly succeeded for me was inspiring me to find better texts on each of those ideas.