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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewEasy-to-digest prose and modest portions make these stories compulsively readable, and reveal new angles on old stories.Publishers Weekly (starred review) Publishers Weekly (starred review) Clear and engaging... erudite and entertaining... Recommended. Choice Eating History covers an enormous amount of ground and is something of a mini-encyclopedia with many entries, each densely packed with information. Smith is a talented storyteller, so the copious facts and figures are presented well, nicely sprinkled with interesting anecdotes. -- Sylvia Lovegren Gastronomica ...a great read... Yum.fi
Table of ContentsPreface 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