![]() Half way through the book he lists the things he misses from the seventies. ![]() Glover doesn't pretend to suggest that today is perfect. Rather, mealtimes were often dominated by processed meat: pies, pasties, Dagwood dogs and Pluto pups. The place was not the land of abundance I was promised. ![]() I found his case against the food of the time especially hilarious having myself first landed in Australia in 1973. Glover charts the shortcomings of 1970s life across a range of areas: crime, attitudes to and restrictions on women and minority groups, entertainment, health, safety, economic wellbeing and cuisine.Īvocado on toast has become a proxy for all that is wrong with today's supposedly spendthrift young adults. ![]() ![]() Rather than maligning the avocado (and young people), he cleverly appropriates the fruit as an exemplar of how far we have come since the 1970s. Richard Glover's just-published The Land Before Avocado is a wonderful and witty journey back in time to life in the early 1970s.įor a start, he deftly reclaims the book's titular fruit from those who have positioned it as a proxy for all that is wrong with today's supposedly feckless and spendthrift young adults. ![]()
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