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Review: Fast Food Nation

May 4, 2011
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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal By Eric Schlosser Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004 By Stephany Moore The 19th century was an era of great economic, technological, and social growth for America. Henry Ford developed the first Model-T in the 1900s and his assembly line production was introduced in 1913. The Great [...]

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Review: Hometown Appetites

May 4, 2011
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Hometown Appetites: The Story of Clementine Paddleford, the Forgotten Food Writer Who Chronicled How America Ate By Kelly Alexander and Cynthia Harris Gotham Books 2008 Reviewed by Annarose Hart With enough gumption for an army, Clementine Paddleford blazed the way into the culinary world one kitchen at a time. Kelly Alexander’s and Cynthia Harris’s biography, [...]

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Review: In Defense of Food

May 6, 2010

In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto By Michael Pollan – Penguin Group By Catherine Metzgar Question: What should humans eat to be healthy? Answer: Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. These three seemingly simple rules for how humans should eat are offered by Michael Pollan in his book In Defense of Food: An [...]

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Review: Pig Perfect

May 6, 2010

Pig Perfect: Encounters with Remarkable Swine and Some Great Ways to Cook Them By Peter Kaminsky Hyperion 2005 By Laura Parente “I pursue pork like a detective on the trail of an artful thief,” powerful words written by a serious devotee of pork and lover of ham, describing the passion in which author Peter Kaminsky [...]

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Review: Pet Food Politics

May 6, 2010

Pet Food Politics: The Chihuahua in the Coal Mine By Marion Nestle University of California Press 2008. By Kate Barkman Pet Food Politics chronologically details the pet food recall of 2007. Although the dying pets affected in this recall were documented across the U.S., the root of the problem occurred globally. The book slyly takes [...]

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Review: Spice

May 6, 2010

Spice, The History of a Temptation By Jack Turner Alfred A. Knopf 2004 By Erin White Jack Turner stated, “And so it remained until the sixteenth century, when at last the discoverers chipped away at the great edifices of medieval ignorance and fantasy, dragging the realms of spice and gold into the prosaic light of [...]

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Review: Fork It Over

May 6, 2010

Fork It Over: The Intrepid Adventures of a Professional Eater By Alan Richman Harper Perennial 2005 By Dustin Nelson In Fork It Over, author Alan Richman blatantly states in the first chapter that “Food is life. The rest is parsley.” This remark is soon understood as the twelve-time winner of the James Beard Foundation Award [...]

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