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Food Chains: From Farmyard to Shopping Cart (Hagley Perspectives on Business and Culture) | 
| Creators: Warren Belasco, Roger Horowitz
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Category: Book
List Price: $55.00
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Sales Rank: 536678
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6.2 x 1.2
ISBN: 0812241282
Dewey Decimal Number: 381.41
EAN: 9780812241280
ASIN: 0812241282
Publication Date: December 19, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
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pIn recent years, the integrity of food production and distribution has become an issue of wide social concern. The media report frequently on cases of food contamination as well as on the risks of hormones and cloning. Journalists, documentary filmmakers, and activists have had their say, but until now a survey of the latest research on the history of the modern food-provisioning system--the network that connects farms and fields to supermarkets and the dining table--has been unavailable. In iFood Chains/i, Warren Belasco and Roger Horowitz present a collection of fascinating case studies that reveal the historical underpinnings and institutional arrangements that compose this system.br /br /The dozen essays in iFood Chains/i range widely, from the pig, poultry, and seafood industries to the origins of the shopping cart. The book examines what it took to put ice in nineteenth-century refrigerators, why Soviet citizens could buy ice cream whenever they wanted, what made Mexican food popular in France, and why Americans turned to commercial pet food in place of table scraps for their dogs and cats. iFood Chains/i goes behind the grocery shelves, explaining why Americans in the early twentieth century preferred to buy bread rather than make it, and how Southerners learned to like self-serve shopping. Taken together, these essays demonstrate the value of a historical perspective on the modern food-provisioning system./p
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