Grocery the buying and selling of food in America
| Main Author: | Ruhlman, Michael, 1963- (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Abrams,
2017.
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| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The invisible behemoth on Main Street
- Part I: How we got here
- My father's grocery store Jones
- How the A&P changed the western world
- Growing up
- The visionary Cleveland grocer and the one-stop shop
- "Nea, I think I want to move to Cleveland
- I think I want to work for these grocers"
- How to save a locomotive that has jumped the rails
- Part II: How to think about food
- She bought the fat-free half-and-half
- Breakfast: the most dangerous meal of the day
- No food is healthy
- Shopping with my doctor
- The nefarious practices of the modern-day grocer
- Interlude: Checkout
- Part III: The center aisles
- A few of the twenty thousand new products for your consideration
- Better living through organic turmeric, ashwagandha extract, and hemp seed milk
- A walk in the medicine cabinet
- Part IV: The perimeter
- The farmer who can't find his animals
- Thirty-two thousand pounds of carrots, every week
- "Nobody knows how to cook
- it's mind-boggling"
- The cooking animal
- Frozen
- Part V: Where we are headed
- America's culinary heritage
- The Cleveland Trust
- Cathedral.