Eating History Chapter |
Student |
Book
|
1.Oliver Evans’s Automated Mill (mechanical flour milling) | ||
2.The Erie Canal (transportation) | Kutz | |
3.Delmonico’s (French cuisine) | Brush | |
4.Sylvester Graham’s Reforms (health food) | Harding | Fast Food Nation, by Eric Schlosser |
5.Cyrus McCormick’s Reaper (agricultural mechanization) | Gomez | Mechanization Takes Command: a contribution to anonymous history. by Sigfried Giedion |
6.A Multiethnic Smorgasbord (immigration) | Jegen | We Are What We Eat by Donna R. Gabaccia |
7.Giving Thanks (Thanksgiving Holiday) | Carter | Thanksgiving: An American Holiday; An American History |
8.Gail Borden’s Canned Milk (canning) | Eichelberger | Food and Drink in America: A History by Richard J. Hooker |
9.The Homogenizing War (Civil War) | Griffin | The Personal Memoirs of US Grant |
10.The Transcontinental Railroad (refrigeration) | Sammur | Nothing Like it in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad by Stephen E. Ambrose |
11.Fair Food (1876 & 1893 World Fairs) | Tarvin | Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser |
12.Henry Crowell’s Quaker Special (packaging and marketing) | Nicholson | Total Package |
13.Wilbur O. Atwater’s Calorimeter (nutrition science) | Hendrix | Revolution at the Table: The Transformation of the American Diet by Harvery A Levenstein |
14.The Cracker Jack Snack (snacks and candy) | Patterson | From Columbus to ConAgra |
15.Fannie Farmer’s Cookbook (standardization) | New | Laura Sharpiro, perfection salad |
16.The Kellogg’s Corn Flakes (breakfast cereals) | Dhooghe | American empress : the life and times of Marjorie Merriweather Post by Rubin, Nancy. |
17.Upton Sinclair’s Jungle (food safety) | Thornton | The Good Provider: HJ Heinz and his 57 Varieties |
18.Frozen Seafood and TV Dinners | Green | Williams, Frozen Food |
19.Michael Cullen’s Super Market | ||
20.Earle MacAusland’s Gourmet (food magazines) | Sugita | Clementine in the Kitchen |
21.Jerome I. Rodale’s Organic Gardening | ||
22.Percy Spencer’s Radar (microwave ovens) | Lednicky | Never Done: Housework by Susan Strasser |
23.Frances Roth and Katherine Angell’s CIA (Culinary Institute of America) | ||
24.McDonald’s Drive-In (fast food) | Streeter | McDonald’s: Behind the Arches, rev. ed. By: John F. Love |
25.Julia Child, the French Chef (television and cuisine) | Rousseau
Walker |
appetite for life, the biography of Julia Child |
26.Jean Nidetch’s Diet (Weight Watchers) | ||
27.Alice Water’s Chez Panisse (local food) | Tridle | Shapiro, Laura. Julia Child: A Life |
28.TVFN (cable food network) | Mance | Appetite for Life: The Biography of Julia Child by Noel Riley Fitch |
29.The Flavr Savr (genetically modified foods) | ||
30.Mergers, Acquisitions, and Spin-Offs (food industry) | W. Smith | Burrough and Helyar, Barbarians at the gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco |