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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Michael Ruhlman |
ISBN: | 9781419723865 1419723863 |
OCLC Number: | 970818888 |
Awards: | Short-listed for IACP Cookbook Awards 2018 |
Description: | 307 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Introduction: The invisible behemoth on Main Street -- How We Got Here. My father's grocery store Jones -- How the A & P changed the western world -- Growing up -- The visionary Cleveland grocer and the one-stop shop -- "Nea, I think I want to move to Cleveland--I think I want to work for these grocers" -- How to save a locomotive that has jumped the rails -- How to Think About Food. She bought the fat-free half-and-half -- Breakfast : The most dangerous meal of the day -- No food is healthy -- Shopping with my doctor -- The nefarious practices of the modern-day grocer -- Interlude: Checkout -- The Center Aisles. A few of the twenty thousand new products for your consideration -- Better living through organic turmeric, ashwagandha extract, and hemp seed milk -- A walk in the medicine cabinet -- The Perimeter. The farmer who can't find his animals -- Thirty-two thousand pounds of carrots, every week -- "Nobody knows how to cook--it's mind-boggling" -- The cooking animal -- Frozen -- Where We Are Headed. America's culinary heritage -- The Cleveland Trust -- Cathedral. |
Other Titles: | Buying and selling of food in America |
Responsibility: | Michael Ruhlman. |
Abstract:
A James Beard Award-winner investigates the modern American supermarket to reveal how our food is sourced, sold, and consumed
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