Eating History

Informationen zum Autor Andrew F. Smith Klappentext Following in the footsteps of Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma and other popular texts that trace the origins of our food! Andrew F. Smith describes thirty remarkable events that have reinvented the American diet. Filled with eccentric characters and delicious surprises! Eating History tells the story of the bold inventors! savvy restaurateurs! ruthless advertisers! mad scientists! adventurous entrepreneurs! celebrity chefs! and relentless health nuts who changed how America eats. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Acknowledgments Prologue 1. Oliver Evans's Automated Mill 2. The Erie Canal 3. Delmonico's 4. Sylvester Graham's Reforms 5. Cyrus McCormick's Reaper 6. A Multiethnic Smorgasbord 7. Giving Thanks 8. Gail Borden's Canned Milk 9. The Homogenizing War 10. The Transcontinental Railroad 11. Fair Food 12. Henry Crowell's Quaker Special 13. Wilbur O. Atwater's Calorimeter 14. The Cracker Jack Snack 15. Fannie Farmer's Cookbook 16. The Kelloggs' Corn Flakes 17. Upton Sinclair's Jungle 18. Frozen Seafood and TV Dinners 19. Michael Cullen's Super Market 20. Earle MacAusland's Gourmet 21. Jerome I. Rodale's Organic Gardening 22. Percy Spencer's Radar 23. Frances Roth and Katharine Angell's CIA 24. McDonald's Drive-In 25. Julia Child, the French Chef 26. Jean Nidetch's Diet 27. Alice Waters's Chez Panisse 28. TVFN 29. The Flavr Savr 30. Mergers, Acquisitions, and Spin-Offs Epilogue Bibliography

Autorentext
Andrew F. Smith

Klappentext
Following in the footsteps of Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma and other popular texts that trace the origins of our food, Andrew F. Smith describes thirty remarkable events that have reinvented the American diet. Filled with eccentric characters and delicious surprises, Eating History tells the story of the bold inventors, savvy restaurateurs, ruthless advertisers, mad scientists, adventurous entrepreneurs, celebrity chefs, and relentless health nuts who changed how America eats.

Inhalt
Preface
Acknowledgments
Prologue
1. Oliver Evans's Automated Mill
2. The Erie Canal
3. Delmonico's
4. Sylvester Graham's Reforms
5. Cyrus McCormick's Reaper
6. A Multiethnic Smorgasbord
7. Giving Thanks
8. Gail Borden's Canned Milk
9. The Homogenizing War
10. The Transcontinental Railroad
11. Fair Food
12. Henry Crowell's Quaker Special
13. Wilbur O. Atwater's Calorimeter
14. The Cracker Jack Snack
15. Fannie Farmer's Cookbook
16. The Kelloggs' Corn Flakes
17. Upton Sinclair's Jungle
18. Frozen Seafood and TV Dinners
19. Michael Cullen's Super Market
20. Earle MacAusland's Gourmet
21. Jerome I. Rodale's Organic Gardening
22. Percy Spencer's Radar
23. Frances Roth and Katharine Angell's CIA
24. McDonald's Drive-In
25. Julia Child, the French Chef
26. Jean Nidetch's Diet
27. Alice Waters's Chez Panisse
28. TVFN
29. The Flavr Savr
30. Mergers, Acquisitions, and Spin-Offs
Epilogue
Bibliography

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