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Fast food nation : the dark side of the all-American meal / Eric Schlosser.
LIBRA TX945.3 .S355 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schlosser, Eric.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fast food restaurants--United States.
- Fast food restaurants.
- Convenience foods.
- United States.
- Food industry and trade--United States.
- Food industry and trade.
- Convenience foods--United States.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 383 pages, 16 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First Harper Perennial edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Harper Perennial, 2005.
- Summary:
- Fast food has hastened the malling of our landscape, widened the chasm between rich and poor, fueled an epidemic of obesity, and propelled American cultural imperialism abroad. That's a lengthy list of charges, but Eric Schlosser makes them stick with an artful mix of first-rate reportage, wry wit, and careful reasoning.
- Schlosser's myth-shattering survey stretches from California's subdivisions, where the business was born, to the industrial corridor along the New Jersey Turnpike, where many of fast food's flavors are concocted. Along the way, he unearths a trove of fascinating, unsettling truths-from the unholy alliance between fast food and Hollywood to the seismic changes the industry has wrought in food production, popular culture, and even real estate.
- Contents:
- American way: Founding fathers
- Your trusted friends
- Behind the counter
- Success
- Meat and potatoes: Why the fries taste good
- On the range
- Cogs in the great machine
- Most dangerous job
- What's in the meat
- Global realization
- Epilogue: Have it your way
- Afterword: Meaning of mad cow.
- Notes:
- "A hardcover edition of this book was published in 2004 by Houghton Mifflin Company."--T.p. verso.
- Includes section: P.S. : insights, interviews & more.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [356]-361) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0060838582 :
- OCLC:
- 61230885
- Publisher Number:
- 9780060838584
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