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Frederick Kaufman

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Frederick Kaufman is a professor of English at the City University of New York and CUNY's Graduate School of Journalism. He has written about American food culture and other subjects for Harper's Magazine, The New Yorker, Gourmet, Gastronomica, Saveur, and the New York Times Magazine, among others. visa mer He lives in New York. visa färre

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The writing was too much, a roller coaster ride instead of a cruise through U.S. history via food. I gave up because I wasn't learning anything, and would rather use my time to read other books.
 
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Whitecat82 | 2 andra recensioner | Nov 22, 2021 |
I am lost at the financial part, although that is what I hoped to learn about when I picked up this book.
 
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yamiyoghurt | 3 andra recensioner | Jan 29, 2018 |
I was aware that food prices had gone up in the last five years but had chalked it up to rising fuel costs (that's probably still a factor, but not the most important one). I wasn't aware that 2008 and 2010 were actually wheat surpluses though, while the numbers of hungry rose. Kaufman started off chasing a simple question- Why can't there be healthy, delicious, and inexpensive food for all- and ends up in a rabbit hole of Big Food aggregates making things cheap while squeezing out the small guys, scientists looking for the genetic fix while would-be allies decry their hunt, and eventually to the source of the price paradox: the food commodities market. Food stopped being food and became a widget for cash- except the demand will never cease, and not fulfilling it has dire consequences. Definitely an interesting read.… (mer)
 
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Daumari | 3 andra recensioner | Dec 30, 2017 |
How food stopped being food
 
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