Sarah Murray

Moveable Feasts

From Ancient Rome to the 21st Century, the Incredible Journeys of the Food We Eat

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Today the things we eat and drink have crossed oceans, continents, and even airspace before reaching the dinner table. The complex systems and technologies devised throughout the centuries to deliver our food supply reveal surprising things about politics, culture, economies--and our appetites. In Mumbai, India's chaotic commercial capital, men use local trains, bicycles, and their feet to transport more than 170,000 lunches a day from housewives to their husbands, with almost no mix-ups. Modern shipping containers allow companies to send frozen salmon to China, where it can be cheaply thawed, filleted, and refrozen, before traveling back to the United States where it's sold in supermarkets as fresh fish. Moveable Feasts takes a novel look at the economics, logistics, and environmental impact of food, and brings new perspective to debates about where we get our meals.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: St. Martins Press-3PL
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 450g
• ISBN-13: 9780312428143
• ISBN-10: 0312428146
• Artikelnr.: 23800903

Autorenporträt

Sarah Murray seemed to have an idyllic childhood. Then, at age 14, it all came tumbling down. For the next 37 years she dealt with the impacts of cancer. And she did so in a way that encompassed what it means to be a "hero".