The Secret Financial Life of Food : : From Commodities Markets to Supermarkets / / Kara Newman.
One morning while reading Barron's, Kara Newman took note of a casual bit of advice offered by famed commodities trader Jim Rogers. "Buy breakfast," he told investors, referring to the increasing value of pork belly and frozen orange juice futures. The statement inspired Newman to tak...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2012] ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (208 p.) :; 10 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Buy Breakfast
- CHAPTER ONE. How Does Commodities Trading Work?
- CHAPTER TWO. The Spice Route
- CHAP TER THREE. The Commodity That Built a Nation
- CHAPTER FOUR. Great Grains
- CHAPTER FIVE. Butter-and-Egg Men
- CHAPTER SIX . The Mochaccino Market
- CHAPTER EIGHT. This Little Piggy Made a Market
- CHAPTER NINE .When Money Grows on Trees
- CHAPTER TEN. Super Soybeans
- CHAPTER ELEVEN. The Future of Food Futures?
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Index
- Backmatter