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Animal welfare United States Cooking, American Families United States Food habits United States Food industry and trade United States Food preferences United States Frankfurters United States Hot dog stands United States Multiculturalism United States United States Social life and customsSinatra, Stephen T.
Contents: The 80/20 rule -- Why regular diets fail -- The secrets of easy weight-loss success -- The fast-food diet restaurant-by-restaurant guide -- Smart sit-down dining -- The fast food diet at the mall -- The six-week fast-food diet -- Fast food at home -- The fast-food diet for kids -- The fast-food diet vitamins and supplements -- The fast-food diet for business travelers -- The fast- food diet for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.25 SINLee, Jennifer 8.
Summary: "A woman's search for the world's greatest Chinese restaurant proves that egg rolls are as American as apple pie"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 641.5951 LEEFielding-Singh, Priya
Summary: "Inequality in America manifests in many ways, but perhaps nowhere more than in how we eat. From her years of field research, sociologist and ethnographer Priya Fielding-Singh brings us into the kitchens of dozens of families from varied educational, economic, and ethnoracial backgrounds to explore how--and why--we eat the way we do"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown Spark 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.8 FIESax, David.
Summary: A food and business writer examines the world of food trends, revealing where they originate and where they end and who influences them, from food company test labs and trendy food trucks to what characters are eating on our television shows.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perseus Books Group 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 394.12 SAXPrud'homme, Alex
Summary: "Perhaps the most significant meals in the world have been consumed at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue by the presumptive leaders of the free world. Thomas Jefferson had an affinity for eggplant and FDR for terrapin stew. Nixon ate a lump of cottage cheese topped with barbecue sauce every day and Obama regularly had arugula. Now, Alex Prud'homme takes us to the dining tables of the White House to look...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.09 PRUCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 973.09 PRUSummary: From the Publisher: Food, Inc. is guaranteed to shake up our perceptions of what we eat. This powerful documentary deconstructing the corporate food industry in America was hailed by Entertainment Weekly as "more than a terrific movie-it's an important movie." Aided by expert commentators such as Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser, the film poses questions such as: Where has my food come from,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.4 FOOLustig, Robert H.
Summary: "Robert Lustig's 90-minute YouTube video "Sugar: The Bitter Truth", has been viewed more than two million times. Now, in this much anticipated book, he documents the science and the politics that has led to the pandemic of chronic disease over the last 30 years. In the late 1970s when the government mandated we get the fat out of our food, the food industry responded by pouring more sugar in....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hudson Street Press 2012
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Publisher / Publication Date: H J Kramer 1998
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Summary: Wallach sheds a new and interesting light on American history by way of the dinner table. While undeniably a "melting pot" of different cultures and cuisines, America's food habits have been shaped as much by technological innovations and industrial progress as by the intermingling and mixture of ethnic cultures. Understanding the American diet is the first step toward grasping the larger...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 394.12 WALEgan, Sophie.
Summary: A program director at the Culinary Institute of America draws on insights from psychology, anthropology, food science, and behavioral economics to examine the good and the bad in American food culture and how it relates to values that define the national character.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 394.1 EGAMartins, Patrick.
Summary: We have evolved as meat eaters, proclaims Patrick Martins, and it's futile to deny it. But, given the destructive forces of the fast-food industry and factory farming, we need to make smart, informed choices about the food we eat and where it comes from. In 50 short chapters, Martins cuts through organized zealotry and the misleading jargon of food labeling to outline realistic steps everyone...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.176 MARKraig, Bruce.
Contents: Inside the dog: lore and history -- Democratic food and popular culture -- Hot dog people: entrepreneurs, experts, and fans -- Hot dog emporia: signs and meanings -- Doggie styles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: AltaMira Press 2012