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A rich and fertile land : a history of food in America /

The small ears of corn grown on the land by Native Americans have become row upon row of cornflakes on supermarket shelves. The immense seas of grass and the animals that they supported are now big farms with regular rows of soybeans, corn and wheat that feed the world. But how did this happen and w...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Kraig, Bruce (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: London : Reaktion Books, 2017.
Collection:Foods and nations.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • The land
  • Colonial America
  • Immigrants : the things they brought with them and found
  • Technology and land
  • Old Hickory's big cheese
  • Grass and animals
  • The rise of machines
  • What we are and why (to 1945)
  • What we eat and why (since 1945).