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Category : Food
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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The Grocer's Companion and Merchant's Handbook
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Category : Food
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Publisher:
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Category : Food
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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The Grocer's Companion and Merchant's Hand-book
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Category : Coffee
Languages : en
Pages : 254
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Category : Coffee
Languages : en
Pages : 254
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The Compleat Compting-house Companion: Or, Young Merchant and Tradesman's Sure Guide. To which is Added ... a State of the New Duties, on Wines, Cyder, and Perry ... By a Society of Merchants and Tradesmen
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 676
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Languages : en
Pages : 676
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Pure Adulteration
Author: Benjamin R. Cohen
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226816745
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Benjamin R. Cohen uses the pure food crusades at the turn of the twentieth century to provide a captivating window onto the origins of manufactured foods in the United States. In the latter nineteenth century, extraordinary changes in food and agriculture gave rise to new tensions in the ways people understood, obtained, trusted, and ate their food. This was the Era of Adulteration, and its concerns have carried forward to today: How could you tell the food you bought was the food you thought you bought? Could something manufactured still be pure? Is it okay to manipulate nature far enough to produce new foods but not so far that you question its safety and health? How do you know where the line is? And who decides? In Pure Adulteration, Benjamin R. Cohen uses the pure food crusades to provide a captivating window onto the origins of manufactured foods and the perceived problems they wrought. Cohen follows farmers, manufacturers, grocers, hucksters, housewives, politicians, and scientific analysts as they struggled to demarcate and patrol the ever-contingent, always contested border between purity and adulteration, and as, at the end of the nineteenth century, the very notion of a pure food changed. In the end, there is (and was) no natural, prehuman distinction between pure and adulterated to uncover and enforce; we have to decide. Today’s world is different from that of our nineteenth-century forebears in many ways, but the challenge of policing the difference between acceptable and unacceptable practices remains central to daily decisions about the foods we eat, how we produce them, and what choices we make when buying them.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226816745
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Benjamin R. Cohen uses the pure food crusades at the turn of the twentieth century to provide a captivating window onto the origins of manufactured foods in the United States. In the latter nineteenth century, extraordinary changes in food and agriculture gave rise to new tensions in the ways people understood, obtained, trusted, and ate their food. This was the Era of Adulteration, and its concerns have carried forward to today: How could you tell the food you bought was the food you thought you bought? Could something manufactured still be pure? Is it okay to manipulate nature far enough to produce new foods but not so far that you question its safety and health? How do you know where the line is? And who decides? In Pure Adulteration, Benjamin R. Cohen uses the pure food crusades to provide a captivating window onto the origins of manufactured foods and the perceived problems they wrought. Cohen follows farmers, manufacturers, grocers, hucksters, housewives, politicians, and scientific analysts as they struggled to demarcate and patrol the ever-contingent, always contested border between purity and adulteration, and as, at the end of the nineteenth century, the very notion of a pure food changed. In the end, there is (and was) no natural, prehuman distinction between pure and adulterated to uncover and enforce; we have to decide. Today’s world is different from that of our nineteenth-century forebears in many ways, but the challenge of policing the difference between acceptable and unacceptable practices remains central to daily decisions about the foods we eat, how we produce them, and what choices we make when buying them.
The Goldsmith's Handbook
Author: George Edward Gee
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385472806
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385472806
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
Popped Culture
Author: Andrew F. Smith
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 164336281X
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
The history, legends, and cookery of America's favorite snack food Whether in movie theaters or sports arenas, at fairs or theme parks, around campfires or family hearths, Americans consume more popcorn by volume than any other snack. To the world, popcorn seems as American as baseball and apple pie. Within American food lore, popcorn holds a special place, for it was purportedly shared by Native Americans at the first Thanksgiving. In Popped Culture, Andrew F. Smith tests such legends against archaeological, agricultural, culinary, and social findings. While debunking many myths, he discovers a flavorful story of the curious kernel's introduction and ever-increasing consumption in North America. Unlike other culinary fads of the nineteenth century, popcorn has never lost favor with the American public. Smith gauges the reasons for its unflagging popularity: the invention of "wire over the fire" poppers, commercial promotion by shrewd producers, the fascination of children with the kernel's magical "pop," and affordability. To explain popcorn's twentieth-century success, he examines its fortuitous association with new technology—radio, movies, television, microwaves—and recounts the brand-name triumphs of American manufacturers and packagers. His familiarity with the history of the snack allows him to form expectations about popcorn's future in the United States and abroad. Smith concludes his account with more than 160 surprising historical recipes for popcorn cookery, including the intriguing use of the snack in custard, hash, ice cream, omelets, and soup.
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 164336281X
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
The history, legends, and cookery of America's favorite snack food Whether in movie theaters or sports arenas, at fairs or theme parks, around campfires or family hearths, Americans consume more popcorn by volume than any other snack. To the world, popcorn seems as American as baseball and apple pie. Within American food lore, popcorn holds a special place, for it was purportedly shared by Native Americans at the first Thanksgiving. In Popped Culture, Andrew F. Smith tests such legends against archaeological, agricultural, culinary, and social findings. While debunking many myths, he discovers a flavorful story of the curious kernel's introduction and ever-increasing consumption in North America. Unlike other culinary fads of the nineteenth century, popcorn has never lost favor with the American public. Smith gauges the reasons for its unflagging popularity: the invention of "wire over the fire" poppers, commercial promotion by shrewd producers, the fascination of children with the kernel's magical "pop," and affordability. To explain popcorn's twentieth-century success, he examines its fortuitous association with new technology—radio, movies, television, microwaves—and recounts the brand-name triumphs of American manufacturers and packagers. His familiarity with the history of the snack allows him to form expectations about popcorn's future in the United States and abroad. Smith concludes his account with more than 160 surprising historical recipes for popcorn cookery, including the intriguing use of the snack in custard, hash, ice cream, omelets, and soup.
The Goldsmith's Handbook
Author: George Edward Gee
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Category : Goldwork
Languages : en
Pages : 342
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Category : Goldwork
Languages : en
Pages : 342
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The Goldsmith's Handbook, Containing Full Instructions for the Alloying and Working of Gold
Author: George Edward Gee
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Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 354
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Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 354
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The Tourist's Companion; Being a Guide to the Towns of Plymouth, Plymouth Dock ... and Their Vicinities, Etc
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Languages : en
Pages : 350
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Languages : en
Pages : 350
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The Tourist's Companion; Being a Guide to the Towns of Devonport, Plymouth, Stonehouse, Stoke, Morice-Town, and Their Vicinities: the Breakwater, Naval Arsenal, and Other Remarkable Objects
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Category : Devon (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 342
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Category : Devon (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 342
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