Eating History by Smith, Andrew F. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Page Preface Acknowledgments Prologue 1. - Oliver Evans’s Automated Mill

Milling History Evans’s Mill New Inventions Milled Effects Postscript

2. - The Erie Canal

Canal History Canal Effects Postscript

3. - Delmonico’s

French Cuisine in America French Revival Delmonico’s Effects Postscript

4. - Sylvester Graham’s Reforms

Graham History Graham’s Effects Postscript

5. - Cyrus McCormick’s Reaper

Reaping History Reaping Success Mechanization’s Effects Postscript

6. - A Multiethnic Smorgasbord

Multiethnic Culinary History Immigrant Effects Postscript

7. - Giving Thanks

Giving Thanks History Nationalizing Giving Thanks Giving Thanks to the Pilgrims Giving No Thanks Giving Thanks Effects Postscript

8. - Gail Borden’s Canned Milk

Canned History Canned Effects Postscript

9. - The Homogenizing War

Homogenizing Food South and North Homogenizing Legislation Homogenizing Effects Postscript

10. - The Transcontinental Railroad

Rail History Transcontinental Railroad Refrigerated Cars A Swift Solution Rail Effects Postscript

11. - Fair Food

Fair History Canned Goods and Hamburgers The World’s Columbian Exposition Fair Effects Postscript

12. - Henry Crowell’s Quaker Special

Food Advertising Quaker Oats Special Effects Postscript

13. - Wilbur O. Atwater’s Calorimeter

Nutrition History Caloric Effects Postscript

14. - The Cracker Jack Snack

Snack History Snack Attack Snack Effects Postscript

15. - Fannie Farmer’s Cookbook

American Cookbooks and Culinary Schools Farmer Effects Postscript

16. - The Kelloggs’ Corn Flakes

Breakfast History John Harvey Kellogg Cereal Effects Postscript

17. - Upton Sinclair’s Jungle

Jungle History Jungle Effects Postscript

18. - Frozen Seafood and TV Dinners

Frozen History Clarence Birdseye Frozen Dinners Frozen Effects Postscript

19. - Michael Cullen’s Super Market

Super History Super Challenges Super Effects Postscript

20. - Earle MacAusland’s Gourmet

Culinary Magazines Fashionable Success Fashionable Effects Postscript

21. - Jerome I. Rodale’s Organic Gardening

Inorganic Food History Rodale and the Organic Farming Movement Organic Effects Postscript

22. - Percy Spencer’s Radar

Microwaveable History Microwaveable Effects Postscript

23. - Frances Roth and Katharine Angell’s CIA

Cooking School History The CIA The Competition Professional Results Postscript

24. - McDonald’s Drive-In

Fast Food History Burger History The Brothers McDonald McCriticism McEffects McPostscript

25. - Julia Child, the French Chef

American Fascination with French Cookery The French Chef Chef Effects Postscript

26. - Jean Nidetch’s Diet

Diet History Diet Organizations Diet Products Diet Effects Postscript

27. - Alice Waters’s Chez Panisse

Waters History Waters Effects Postscript

28. - TVFN

Channeling Food Entertaining Effects Postscript

29. - The Flavr Savr

Transgenic Food First Generation Biotech Foods Frankenfoods Flavr Effects Postscript

30. - Mergers, Acquisitions, and Spin-Offs

Kraft History Other Mergers, Acquisitions, and Spin-Offs Merged Effects Postscript

Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index Copyright Page

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