Grocery: The Buying and Selling of Food in America

Grocery: The Buying and Selling of Food in America
ISBN-10
1419729535
ISBN-13
9781419729539
Category
Social Science
Language
English
Published
2018-05-29
Publisher
Harry N. Abrams
Author
Michael Ruhlman

Description

Introduction: The invisible behemoth on Main Street -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 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 -- America's culinary heritage -- The Cleveland Trust -- Cathedral.

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