Putting Meat on the American Table - Taste, Technology, Transformation

Informationen zum Autor Roger Horowitz is associate director of the Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society at the Hagley Museum and Library, Greenville, Delaware. Klappentext Engagingly written and richly illustrated, Putting Meat on the American Table explains how America became a meat-eating nation-from the colonial period to the present. It examines the relationships between consumer preference and meat processing-looking closely at the production of beef, pork, chicken, and hot dogs. Roger Horowitz argues that a series of new technologies have transformed American meat. He draws on detailed consumption surveys that shed new light on America's eating preferences-especially differences associated with income, rural versus urban areas, and race and ethnicity. Putting Meat on the American Table will captivate general readers and interest all students of the history of food, technology, business, and American culture. Zusammenfassung Putting Meat on the American Table will captivate general readers and interest all students of the history of food! technology! business! and American culture.

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Roger Horowitz is associate director of the Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society at the Hagley Museum and Library, Greenville, Delaware.

Product details

• Authors: Roger Horowitz, Roger (Associate Director Horowitz, Horowitz Roger
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.02.2006
• EAN: 9780801882418
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-8241-8
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 222 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; USA, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Manufacturing, COOKING / Specific Ingredients / Meat, COOKING / Specific Ingredients / Game, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, Cookery / food by ingredient: meat and game, Cooking with meat & game, Manufacturing industries, Food Manufacturing & Related Industries