A Geography of Digestion : Biotechnology and the Kellogg Cereal Enterprise / Nicholas Bauch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bauch, Nicholas, Author.

Series:

California studies in food and culture ; 62.

California Studies in Food and Culture ; 62

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cereal products industry--Technological innovations--United States.

Cereal products industry.

Sanitary engineering--United States--History.

Sanitary engineering.

Breakfast cereals--United States.

Breakfast cereals.

Digestion--Environmental aspects--United States.

Digestion.

Battle Creek Sanitarium (Battle Creek, Mich.).

Kellogg Company.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 pages) : illustrations, photographs.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A Geography of Digestion is a highly original exploration of the legacy of the Kellogg Company, one of America's most enduring and storied food enterprises. In the late nineteenth century, company founder John H. Kellogg was experimenting with state-of-the-art advances in nutritional and medical science at his Battle Creek Sanitarium. Believing that good health depended on digesting the right foods in the right way, Kellogg thought that proper digestion could not happen without improved technologies, including innovations in food-processing machinery, urban sewer infrastructure, and agricultural production that changed the way Americans consumed and assimilated food. Asking his readers to think about mapping the processes and locations of digestion, Nicholas Bauch moves outward from the stomach to the sanitarium and through the landscape, clarifying the relationship between food, body, and environment at a crucial moment in the emergence of American health food sensibilities.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Spatially Extending the Digestive System

1. The Battle Creek Sanitarium: A Place of Health

2. Scientific Eating: Kellogg's Philosophy of the Modern Stomach

3. Flaked Cereal: The Moment of Invention

4. Extending the Digestive System into the Urban Landscape

5. The Systematization of Agriculture

6. Breakfast Cereal in the Twentieth Century

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780520961180

0520961188

OCLC:

953866753