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The American Food Scandal; why you can't eat well on what you earn, by William Robbins.
LIBRA - Blank Collection HD9006 .R6 1974
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Robbins, William, 1924-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Food industry and trade--United States.
- Food prices--United States.
- Cost and standard of living--United States.
- Consumers--United States.
- Penn Provenance:
- Blank, Fritz (bookplate) (donor)
- Physical Description:
- [8], 280 pages 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, William Morrow & Company, Inc., 1974.
- Contents:
- The Hoax Is on Us
- Beachhead in the Sun
- Land Syndicates: And the Rich Get Richer
- California's Water Fraud
- Conditions for Conspiracy
- Giants of the Earth, Shadows on the Land
- Corporate Hands on the Plow
- A Banana Named Chiquita
- Giantism in Food Processing
- The Puffed Profit Breakfast
- Super Prices in the Supermarket
- Ambush in the Aisles
- Supermarket Bunko
- Where Are the Tastes of Yesteryear?
- Blood, Fat and Germs
- Golden Grain: The Russian What Deals
- Of Milk and Money
- The Laboratory Invasion
- Let Them Eat Cancer
- The Politics of Food.
- Notes:
- Design by Helen Roberts.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-269) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Fritz Blank in 2008.
- Kislak copy has bookplate of Chef Fritz Blank.
- Kislak copy has dust jacket with transparent protective cover retained.
- Kislak copy withdrawn from New Orleans Public Library has stamps, call number and catalog card.
- ISBN:
- 068800251X :
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