Fresh - A Perishable History

Klappentext That rosy tomato perched on your plate in December is at the end of a great journey-not just over land and sea, but across a vast and varied cultural history. This is the territory charted in Fresh. Freidberg takes six common foods from the refrigerator to discover what each has to say about our notions of freshness. Zusammenfassung That rosy tomato perched on your plate in December is at the end of a great journey—not just over land and sea, but across a vast and varied cultural history. This is the territory charted in Fresh. Freidberg takes six common foods from the refrigerator to discover what each has to say about our notions of freshness. Inhaltsverzeichnis * Introduction * Refrigeration: Cold Revolution * Beef: Mobile Meat * Eggs: Shell Games * Fruit: Ephemeral Beauty * Vegetables: Hidden Labor * Milk: Border Politics * Fish: Wild Life * Epilogue * Notes * Bibliography * Acknowledgments * Index

Product details

• Authors: Susanne Freidberg, Freidberg Susanne
• Publisher: Belknap press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2010
• EAN: 9780674057227
• ISBN: 978-0-674-05722-7
• No. of pages: 408
• Dimensions: 139 mm x 210 mm x 27 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, SCIENCE / History, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Horticulture, Sociology & anthropology, Cultural studies: food and society, Cookery / food and drink / food writing