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Kellogg's six-hour day / by Hunnicutt, Benjamin Kline.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-248) and index.
Subjects: Work sharing; Shift systems; Hours of labor; Cereal products industry; Unemployment; Depressions; Kellogg Company;
© 1996., Temple University Press,
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Food, Inc. [videorecording] / by Kenner, Robert,1950-prodrtaus; Pearlstein, Elise.proaus; Roberts, Kim.ausflm; Schlosser, Eric.ive; Pollan, Michael.ive; Hirshberg, Gary.ive; Salatin, Joel.ive; Adler, Mark.cmp; Participant Media.; River Road Entertainment (Firm); Perfect Meal, LLC (Firm); Magnolia Home Entertainment (Firm); Magnolia Pictures (Firm); American Documentary, Inc.;
DVD, NTSC, Region 1; widescreen (1.78:1); Dolby digital 5.1 or Dolby digital 2.0 audio.Interviewees include Eric Schlosser, Michael Pollan, Gary Hirshberg, Joel Salatin.Director of photography, Richard Pearce ; editor, Kim Roberts ; music, Mark Adler.MPAA rating: PG; for some thematic material and disturbing images.Lifts the veil on our nation's food industry, exposing how our nation's food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profits ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment. Reveals surprising - and often shocking truths - about what we eat, how it's produced and who we have become as a nation.Special feature: deleted scenes; celebrity public service announcements; resources; "You are what you eat: food with integrity" [segment originally broadcast on ABC News Nightline on June 16th, 2009 ; ca. 7 min.) ; "The amazing food detective: Snacktown smackdown" (by Kaiser Permanente ; animated children's segment with scenes from interactive game Snacktown Smackdown ; ca. 3 min.) ; information on the companion book of the same title ; original theatrical trailer ; links to related organizations.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Nonfiction films.; Feature films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Feature films; Food industry and trade; Food industry and trade; Cereal products industry; Dairy products industry; Meat industry and trade; Food handling; Food adulteration and inspection; Product recall; Product safety; Agricultural industries; Agricultural processing; Agriculture; Agriculture; Agriculture; Foodborne diseases; Produce trade; Food prices;
© 2009., Magnolia Home Entertainment,
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Pandora's lunchbox : how processed food took over the American meal / by Warner, Melanie.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-257) and index.From breakfast cereal to frozen pizza to nutrition bars, processed foods are a fundamental part of our diet, accounting for 65% of our nation's yearly calories. Over the past century, technology has transformed the American meal into a chemical-laden smorgasbord of manipulated food products that bear little resemblance to what our grandparents ate. Despite the growing presence of farmers' markets and organic offerings, food additives and chemical preservatives are nearly impossible to avoid, and even the most ostensibly healthy foods contain multisyllabic ingredients with nearly untraceable origins. The far-reaching implications of the industrialization of the food supply that privileges cheap, plentiful, and fast food have been well documented. They are dire. But how did we ever reach the point where 'pink slime' is an acceptable food product? Is anybody regulating what makes it into our food? What, after all, is actually safe to eat? Here the author, a former York Times health columnist combines deep investigatory reporting, culinary history, and cultural analysis, to find out how we got here and what it is we are really eating. This book blows the lid off the largely undocumented world of processed foods and food manipulation. From the vitamin "enrichments" to our fortified cereals and bread, to the soy mixtures that bolster chicken (and often outweigh the actual chicken included), the author lays bare the dubious nutritional value and misleading labels of chemically-treated foods, as well as the potential price we, and our children, may pay. -- Provided by publisher.Weird science -- The crusading chemist -- The quest for eternal cheese -- Extruded and gun puffed -- Putting Humpty Dumpty back together again -- Better living through chemistry -- The joy of soy -- Extended meat -- Why chicken needs chicken flavor -- Healthy processed foods -- Sit at home and chew.
Subjects: Food industry and trade; Processed foods; Food additives;
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Three squares : the invention of the American meal / by Carroll, Abigail.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.We are how we eat -- Why colonial meals were messy -- The British invasion -- How dinner became special -- How dinner became American -- Why lunch is cold, cheap, and quick -- Reinventing breakfast -- Snacking redeemed -- The state of the American meal -- The future of the American meal.We are what we eat, as the saying goes, but we are also how we eat, and when, and where. Our eating habits reveal as much about our society as the food on our plates, and our national identity is written in the eating schedules we follow and the customs we observe at the table and on the go. In this book the author, a food historian upends the popular understanding of our most cherished mealtime traditions, revealing that our eating habits have never been stable, far from it, in fact. The eating patterns and ideals we have inherited are relatively recent inventions, the products of complex social and economic forces, as well as the efforts of ambitious inventors, scientists and health gurus. Whether we are pouring ourselves a bowl of cereal, grabbing a quick sandwich, or congregating for a family dinner, our mealtime habits are living artifacts of our collective history, and represent only the latest stage in the evolution of the American meal. Our early meals, the author explains, were rustic affairs, often eaten hastily, without utensils, and standing up. Only in the nineteenth century, when the Industrial Revolution upset work schedules and drastically reduced the amount of time Americans could spend on the midday meal, did the shape of our modern "three squares" emerge: quick, simple, and cold breakfasts and lunches and larger, sit-down dinners. Since evening was the only part of the day when families could come together, dinner became a ritual, as American as apple pie. But with the rise of processed foods, snacking has become faster, cheaper, and easier than ever, and many fear for the fate of the cherished family meal as a result. The story of how the simple gruel of our forefathers gave way to snack fixes and fast food, this book also explains how Americans' eating habits may change in the years to come. Only by understanding the history of the American meal can we can help determine its future. -- From book jacket.The story of how the simple gruel of our forefathers gave way to snack fixes and fast food, "Three Squares" also explains how Americans' eating habits may change in the years to come.
Subjects: Food habits; Diet; Dinners and dining; Luncheons; Breakfasts; National characteristics, American.;
© [2013], Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group,
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The Kelloggs : the battling brothers of Battle Creek / by Markel, Howard.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages [393]-480) and index.Introduction : The Cain and Abel of America's heartland -- Part I. "Michigan fever". "Go west, young man" -- The chosen one -- New brooms sweep clean -- Long-distance learning -- Part II. An empire of wellness. Building the San -- "What's more American than corn flakes?" -- "Fire!" ... and cease-fire -- The new San -- Part III. Manufacturing health. The San's operations -- A "university of health" -- Will's place -- Part IV. Battles of old age. The prison of resentment -- The doctor's crusade against race degeneracy -- A full plate -- "Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown" -- The final score."John Harvey Kellogg was one of America's most beloved physicians; a best-selling author, lecturer, and health-magazine publisher; founder of the Battle Creek Sanitarium; and patron saint of the pursuit of wellness. His youngest brother, Will, was the founder of the Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company, which revolutionized the mass production of food and what we eat for breakfast. In The Kelloggs, Howard Markel tells the sweeping saga of these two extraordinary men, whose lifelong competition and enmity toward one another changed America's notion of health and wellness from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries, and who helped change the course of American medicine, nutrition, wellness, and diet. The Kelloggs were of Puritan stock, a family that came to the shores of New England in the mid-seventeenth century, went west to the wooded Michigan frontier to start a farm that became one of the biggest in the county, and then renounced it all for the religious calling of Ellen Harmon White, a self-proclaimed prophetess, and James White, whose new Seventh-day Adventist theology was based on Christian principles and sound body, mind, and hygiene rules--Ellen called it "health reform." The Whites groomed the young John Kellogg for a central role in the Seventh-day Adventist Church and sent him to America's finest medical school, Bellevue Hospital Medical College. Kellogg's main medical focus--and America's number one malady: indigestion. Markel gives us the life and times of the Kellogg brothers of Battle Creek: Dr. John Harvey Kellogg and his world-famous Battle Creek Sanitarium medical center, spa, and grand hotel attracted thousands actively pursuing health and well-being. Among the guests: Mary Todd Lincoln, Amelia Earhart, Booker T. Washington, Johnny Weissmuller, Dale Carnegie, Sojourner Truth, Henry Ford, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and George Bernard Shaw. And the presidents he advised: Taft, Harding, Hoover, and Roosevelt, with first lady Eleanor. The brothers Kellogg experimented on malt, wheat, and corn meal, and, tinkering with special ovens and toasting devices, came up with a ready-to-eat, easily digested cereal they called Corn Flakes. As Markel chronicles the Kelloggs' fascinating, Magnificent Ambersons-like ascent into the pantheon of American industrialists, we see the vast changes in American social mores that took shape in diet, health, medicine, philanthropy, and food manufacturing during seven decades--changing the lives of millions and helping to shape our industrial age."--Jacket.
Subjects: Biographies.; Kellogg, John Harvey, 1852-1943.; Kellogg, W. K. (Will Keith), 1860-1951.; Battle Creek Sanitarium (Battle Creek, Mich.); Kellogg Toasted Corn Flake Company; Kellogg Company; Physicians; Industrialists; Industrialists; Industrialists.;
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