Feeding the People: The Politics of the Potato, Rebecca Earle

Автор: Earle Rebecca
Название: Potato
ISBN: 1501344315 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501344312
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Baked potatoes, Bombay potatoes, pommes frites . . . everyone eats potatoes, but what do they mean? To the United Nations they mean global food security (potatoes are the world’s fourth most important food crop). To 18th-century philosophers they promised happiness. Nutritionists warn that too many increase your risk of hypertension. For the poet Seamus Heaney they conjured up both his mother and the 19th-century Irish famine. What stories lie behind the ordinary potato? The potato is entangled with the birth of the liberal state and the idea that individuals, rather than communities, should form the building blocks of society. Potatoes also speak about family, and our quest for communion with the universe. Thinking about potatoes turns out to be a good way of thinking about some of the important tensions in our world. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.

Автор: Burhans Dirk
Название: Crunch!: A History of the Great American Potato Chip
ISBN: 029922774X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780299227746
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: The potato chip has been one of America's favorite snacks since its accidental origin in a nineteenth-century kitchen. Crunch A History of the Great American Potato Chip tells the story of this crispy, salty treat, from the early sales of locally made chips at corner groceries, county fairs, and cafes to the mass marketing and corporate consolidation of the modern snack food industry.
Crunch also uncovers a dark side of potato chip history, including a federal investigation of the snack food industry in the 1990s following widespread allegations of antitrust activity, illegal buyouts, and predatory pricing. In the wake of these "Great Potato Chip Wars," corporate snack divisions closed and dozens of family-owned companies went bankrupt. Yet, despite consolidation, many small chippers persist into the twenty-first century, as mom-and-pop companies and upstart "boutique" businesses serve both new consumers and markets with strong regional loyalties.
Illustrated with images of early snack food paraphernalia and clever packaging from the glory days of American advertising art, Crunch is an informative tour of large and small business in America and the vicissitudes of popular tastes.

Автор: Jacques,
Название: The Potato Beetles
ISBN: 1138423742 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138423749
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: This is the first major reconstruction of this new world of plants in sixteenth-century Tuscany. Focusing primarily on the medical use of plants, this book also shows how plants, while maintaining their importance in therapy, began to be considered and studied for themselves, and how this new understanding prepared the groundwork for the science of

Автор: Salaman Redcliffe, Redcliffe N. Salaman
Название: The History and Social Influence of the Potato
ISBN: 0521316235 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521316231
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: This revised impression enables another generation of readers to sample what Eric Hobsbawm has referred to as `that magnificent monument of scholarship and humanity`.

Автор: Evans Bryce, Bentley Amy, Scholliers Peter
Название: Feeding the People in Wartime Britain
ISBN: 1350259713 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350259713
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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While the history of food on the home front in wartime Britain has mostly focused on rationing, this book reveals the importance and scale of nation-wide communal dining schemes during this era. Welcomed by some as a symbol of a progressive future in which 'wasteful' home dining would disappear, and derided by others for threatening the social order, these sites of food and eating attracted great political and cultural debate.

Using extensive primary source material, Feeding the People in Wartime Britain examines the cuisine served in these communal restaurants and the people who used them. It challenges the notion that communal eating played a marginal role in wartime food policy and reveals the impact they had in advancing nutritional understanding and new food technologies. Comparing them to similar ventures in mainland Europe and understanding the role of propaganda from the Ministry of Food in their success, Evans unearths this neglected history of emergency public feeding and relates it to contemporary debates around food policy in times of crisis.