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The Buying and Selling of Food in America
Harry N Abrams
May 2017
On Sale: May 16, 2017
288 pages
ISBN: 1419723863
EAN: 9781419723865
Kindle: B06XRGSRLT
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Non-Fiction Cooking / Food
In Grocery, bestselling author Michael Ruhlman offers
incisive 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 questions than answers. Ruhlman proposes that the
best practices for consuming wisely could be hiding in plain
sight—in the aisles of your local supermarket. Using the
human story of the family-run Midwestern chain Heinen’s as
an anchor to this journalistic narrative, he dives into the
mysterious world of supermarkets and the ways in which we
produce, consume, and distribute food. Grocery examines how rapidly supermarkets—and our food and
culture—have changed since the days of your friendly
neighborhood grocer. But rather than waxing nostalgic for
the age of mom-and-pop shops, Ruhlman seeks to understand
how our food needs have shifted since the mid-twentieth
century, and how these needs mirror our cultural ones. A mix of reportage and rant, personal history and social
commentary, Grocery is a landmark book from one of our most
insightful food writers.
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