Canned : the rise and fall of consumer confidence in the American food industry /

"This book explores the earliest roots of the modern food industry, focusing on the development of the canning industry in the United States. Canning leaders leveraged the power of scientific expertise to create a market for canned food. Before the mid-twentieth century, in order to win consume...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Zeide, Anna, 1984- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]
Series:California studies in food and culture.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Canned foods > United States > History > 20th century.
Canned foods industry > United States > History > 20th century.
Conserves > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Conserves > Industrie > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
HISTORY > United States > General.
Canned foods.
Canned foods industry.
United States.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Condensed milk : the development of the early canning industry
  • Growing a better pea : canners, farmers, and agricultural scientists in the 1910s and 1920s
  • Poisoned olives : consumer fear and expert collaboration
  • Grade A tomatoes : labeling debates and consumers in the New Deal
  • Fighting for safe tuna : postwar challenges to processed food
  • BPA in Campbell's soup: new threats to an entrenched food system.

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