| Description |
408 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [347]-384) and index. |
| Contents |
Refrigeration : cold revolution -- Beef : mobile meat -- Eggs : shell games -- Fruit : ephemeral beauty -- Vegetables : hidden labor -- Milk : border politics -- Fish : wild life. |
| Summary |
Freidberg then takes six common foods from the refrigerator to discover what each has to say about our notions of freshness. Fruit, for instance, shows why beauty trumped taste at a surprisingly early date. In the case of fish, we see how the value of a living, quivering catch has ironically hastened the death of species. And of all supermarket staples, why has milk remained the most stubbornly local? Local livelihoods; global trade; the politics of taste, community, and environmental change: all enter into this lively, surprising, yet sobering tale about the nature and cost of our hunger for freshness. |
| Subject |
Food -- Quality.
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Food handling.
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Food -- Labeling.
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Perishable goods.
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| ISBN |
9780674032910 (alkaline paper) |
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0674032918 (alkaline paper) |
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