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Table of Contents:
- Prologue
- Oliver Evans's automated mill
- The Erie Canal
- Delmonico's
- Sylvester Graham's reforms
- Cyrus McCormick's reaper
- A multiethnic smorgasbord
- Giving thanks
- Gail Borden's canned milk
- The homogenizing war
- The transcontinental railroad
- Fair food
- Henry Crowell's Quaker special
- Wilbur O. Atwater's calorimeter
- The Cracker Jack snack
- Fannie Farmer's cookbook
- The Kelloggs' corn flakes
- Upton Sinclair's Jungle
- Frozen seafood and TV dinners
- Michael Cullen's super market
- Earle MacAusland's Gourmet
- Jerome I. Rodale's Organic gardening
- Percy Spencer's radar
- Frances Roth and Katharine Angell's CIA
- McDonald's drive-in
- Julia Child, the French chef
- Jean Nidetch's diet
- Alice Waters's Chez Panisse
- TVFN
- The Flavr Savr
- Mergers, acquisitions, and spin-offs
- Epilogue.
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Language Notes:
- Item content: English
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General Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [347]-363) and index.
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Physical Description:
- xii, 376 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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Call Numbers:
- TX715 .S651315 2009
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ISBNs:
- 9780231140928 (cloth, alk. paper)
0231140924 (cloth, alk. paper)
9780231511759 (ebook)
0231511752 (ebook)
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Library of Congress Control Numbers:
- 2009002996
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OCLC Numbers:
- 300280325