Fast food nation [electronic resource] : the dark side of the all-American meal / Eric Schlosser.
2001
TX715 .S2968 2001eb
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Title
Fast food nation [electronic resource] : the dark side of the all-American meal / Eric Schlosser.
Author
Schlosser, Eric.
ISBN
9780547518244 electronic book
9780395977897
0395977894
9780395977897
0395977894
Publication Details
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2001.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (356 pages) : illustrations.
Call Number
TX715 .S2968 2001eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
394.1/0973
Summary
"To a degree both engrossing and alarming, the story of fast food is the story of postwar America." "Schlosser's myth-shattering survey stretches from the California subdivisions where the business was born to the industrial corridor along the New Jersey Turnpike where many of fast food's flavors are concocted. He hangs out with the teenagers who make the restaurants run and communes with those unlucky enough to hold America's most dangerous job - meatpacker. He travels to Las Vegas for a giddily surreal franchisers' convention where Mikhail Gorbachev delivers the keynote address. And he ventures to England and Germany to clock the rate at which those countries are becoming fast food nations."--Jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [330]-335) and index.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
I. American way
Founding fathers
Your trusted friends
Behind the counter
Success
II. Meat and potatoes
Why the fries taste good
On the range
Cogs in the great machine
Most dangerous job
What's in the meat
Global realization
Epilogue: Have it your way
Photo credits
Notes.
I. American way
Founding fathers
Your trusted friends
Behind the counter
Success
II. Meat and potatoes
Why the fries taste good
On the range
Cogs in the great machine
Most dangerous job
What's in the meat
Global realization
Epilogue: Have it your way
Photo credits
Notes.