Nuggets of gold : further processed chicken and the making of the American diet / Patrick Dixon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dixon, Patrick, 1984- author.

Series:

Politics and culture in the twentieth-century South

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food industry and trade--United States.

Food industry and trade.

Processed foods--United States.

Processed foods.

Diet--United States.

Diet.

Physical Description:

xi, 175 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Athens, Georgia : The University of Georgia Press, [2024]

Summary:

"Nuggets of Gold offers a new interpretation of the place of industrial food production, consumption, and conceptions of eating and health within the contemporary American died by explaining the origins, development, and ultimately the success of further processed chicken meals. Patrick Dixon illuminates how McDonald's Chicken McNugget-the flagship product of further processed chicken-achieved symbolic status as an instructive item within the American diet. But, for reasons that were different from those commonly identified by critics. In his multilayered approach, Dixon also connects the inextricable intertwined stories of workers and industrialists with restauranteurs and consumers-the former geographically moored within the South and the latter divers and nationwide. In so doing, he reveals the complex interdependency of American Chicken and the American South"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780820366357

0820366358

9780820367132

0820367133

OCLC:

1434033412