Grocery the buying and selling of food in America /
Michael Ruhlman offers commentary on America's relationship with its food and investigates the overlooked source of so much of it -- the grocery store. In a culture obsessed with food -- how it looks, what it tastes like, where it comes from, what is good for us -- there are often more question...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | New York, NY : Abrams Press, 2017. |
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| Online Access: | Available in ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete. |
Table of Contents:
- 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.