The Secret Financial Life of Food - Arts & Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History

Informationen zum Autor Kara Newman is spirits editor for Wine Enthusiast magazine and the author of two cocktail books, Cocktails for a Crowd and Spice & Ice . She is the former vice president of strategic research at Thomson Reuters and a former board member of the Culinary Historians of New York. Her work has appeared in the New York Times , Saveur , and CFO Magazine . Klappentext Just as the Slow Food movement revolutionized the farmer¿s relationship to the table, The Secret Life of Financial Food reveals the economic pathways connecting food to consumer, unlocking the mysteries behind culinary trends, grocery pricing, and restaurant dining. Newman¿s lively and compact history travels back to the markets of ancient Rome and medieval Europe, where vendors first distinguished between ¿spot sales¿ and ¿sales for delivery.¿ She retraces Asia¿s famed spice routes and recounts the spice craze that prompted Christopher Columbus¿s journey to North America, and she links these developments to modern day India¿s bustling peppercorn market. Newman centers her history on corn and its transformation into a ubiquitous commodity, and she uses oats, wheat, and rye to recast America¿s westward expansion and the Industrial Revolution. She discusses the effects of such mega-corporations as Starbucks and McDonalds on futures markets, and she considers burgeoning markets, particularly ¿super soybeans,¿ which could scramble the landscape of food finance. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction: Buy Breakfast 1. How Does Commodities Trading Work? 2. The Spice Route 3. The Commodity That Built a Nation: Corn Futures 4. Great Grains 5. Butter-and-Egg Men 6. The Mochaccino Market: Coffee, Sugar, and Cocoa 7. Cattle Call 8. This Little Piggy Made a Market: The Rise and Fall of Pork Bellies 9. When Money Grows on Trees: Produce Futures 10. Super Soybeans 11. The Future of Food Futures? Contracts to Consider Epilogue Notes Index...

Product details

• Authors: Kara Newman, Newman Kara
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2012
• EAN: 9780231156707
• ISBN: 978-0-231-15670-7
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 217 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History; Arts and Traditions of the Tab; Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History; Arts and Traditions of the Tab; Arts and Traditions of the Table; Arts and Traditions of the Table (CUP)
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Agribusiness, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Food Industry, Agriculture, agribusiness and food production industries, Agriculture & Related Industries