Dinner's ready
Pictures: Charles Lynch
Describes the many different people involved in making a wide variety of foods available to the consumer in supermarkets and restaurants.
Read Time: ~1.6 hr
The great American shopping cart
by Ada and Frank Graham, Jr (1969)
About this book
Describes the extraordinary changes in America's largest industry, food marketing, and how these changes have affected the growing, harvesting, packaging, preserving, and selling of food and the speed with which items now become available to the consumer.
Setting / LocationGlobal
Story EraModern Era
Protagonist / CoreThe great American shopping cart Lead Character
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