2000% Cracked Wheat: Breakfast for the Millennium

Lynne Perras teaches communication arts at the University of Calgary.

Like its predecessors, 100% Cracked Wheat and 200% Cracked Wheat, this
book is a collection of poems, short stories, essays, and vignettes that
convey the spirit of the prairies. It is divided into 14 sections with
such headings as “Go West, You Silly Bugger,” “Licking Winter,”
“Our Town, Eh,” “What’ve You Got to Say for Yourself Anyway?”
and “Shove It, the Politician Explained.” Within each section are
nine or ten highly amusing articles, each more or less concerned with
the topic of the section. Topics include the struggle to survive winter,
the challenges facing the farming industry, the ubiquitous mosquito, and
curling, and hockey heroes. The humor ranges from the lighthearted and
pastoral to clever satire and parody. Among the better-known
contributors are Glen Sorestad, Don Kerr, Dave Margoshes, Ken Mitchell,
and Birk Sproxton.

Readers looking for a book that delights in and celebrates the West
would be hard-pressed to find a better example than 2000% Cracked Wheat.