Grocery : : the buying and selling of food in America / / Michael Ruhlman.

• VerfasserIn: Ruhlman, Michael, 1963-
• Place / Publishing House: New York, New York : : Abrams Press,, [2017]; 2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (214 pages)

Michael Ruhlman offers commentary on America's relationship with its food and investigates the overlooked source of so much of it -- the grocery store. In a culture obsessed with food -- how it looks, what it tastes like, where it comes from, what is good for us -- there are often more question...

Table of Contents

• Introduction: The invisible behemoth on Main Street
• My father's grocery store Jones
• How the A & P changed the western world
• Growing up
• The visionary Cleveland grocer and the one-stop shop
• "Nea, I think I want to move to Cleveland--I think I want to work for these grocers"
• How to save a locomotive that has jumped the rails
• She bought the fat-free half-and-half
• Breakfast: The most dangerous meal of the day
• No food is healthy
• Shopping with my doctor
• The nefarious practices of the modern-day grocer
• Interlude: Checkout
• A few of the twenty thousand new products for your consideration
• Better living through organic turmeric, ashwagandha extract, and hemp seed milk
• A walk in the medicine cabinet
• The farmer who can't find his animals
• Thirty-two thousand pounds of carrots, every week
• "Nobody knows how to cook--it's mind-boggling"
• The cooking animal
• Frozen
• America's culinary heritage
• The Cleveland Trust
• Cathedral.