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Author McMillan, Tracie.

Title The American way of eating : undercover at Walmart, Applebee's, farm fields, and the dinner table / Tracie McMillan.

Imprint New York : Scribner, 2012.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  394.12 M228a 2012    ---  Available
Edition 1st Scribner hardcover ed.
Description x, 319 p. ; 24 cm.
Summary "In 2009 McMillan embarked on a groundbreaking undercover journey to see what it takes to eat well in America. For nearly a year, she worked, ate, and lived alongside the working poor to examine how Americans eat when price matters"--Jacket.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-318).
Contents Eating in America -- Farming: Grapes ; Peaches ; Cutting garlic ; Gleaning garlic -- Selling: Grocery ; Produce 101 ; Produce 201 -- Cooking: Kitchen novice ; Kitchen spy ; Kitchen fixture -- Conclusion: A new American way of eating -- Appendix: Cheap food?
Subject Food industry and trade -- United States.
Food habits -- Economic aspects -- United States.
Food supply -- United States.
Agricultural laborers -- United States.
Food service -- United States.
Cooking, American.
Added Title Undercover at Walmart, Applebee's, farm fields, and the dinner table
ISBN 9781439171950
1439171955
9781439171974 (ebook)
1439171971 (ebook)

 
    
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