Totally Pizza
Author: Helene Siegel
This is another die-cut cutie, this time tailor-made for cooking and dining in the great outdoors. Helene Siegel presents an array of delicious recipes in Totally Pizza. Choose from a delectable variety of crusts and toppings, sizes and styles, including the traditional classics, fabulous focaccias, and colossal calzones. Totally Pizza is a welcome addition to your Totally cookbook collection.
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Encyclopedia of Junk Food and Fast Food
Author: Andrew F Smith
Eating junk food and fast food is a great all-American passion. American kids and grownups love their candy bars, Big Macs and supersized fries, Doritos, Twinkies, and Good Humor ice cream bars. The disastrous health effects from the enormous appetite for these processed fat- and sugar-loaded foods are well publicized now. This was particularly dramatically evidenced by Super Size Me (2004), filmmaker Morgan Spurlock's 30-day all-McDonald's diet in which his liver suffered the same poisoning as if he had been on an extended alcohol binge. Through increased globalization, American popular food culture is being increasingly emulated elsewhere in the world, such as China, with the potential for similar disastrous consequences. This A-to-Z reference is the first to focus on the junk food and fast food phenomena from a multitude of angles in addition to health and diet concerns. More than 250 essay entries objectively explore the scope of the topics to illuminate the American way through products, corporations and entrepreneurs, social history, popular culture, organizations, issues, politics, commercialism and consumerism, and much more.
VOYA
Did you know that tootsie rolls were the first penny candies to be wrapped in paper? Or that violet was one of the six original M&M colors? Would you be surprised to learn that one out of every eight Americans has been employed by McDonald's? These and other tidbits are on the menu in this fascinating examination of food culture in America. Although most Americans think of the junk food/fast food phenomenon as fairly recent, many nineteenth century events were precursors to the country's development as a fast-food nation-technological advances in flour milling, improved transportation, and the population shift from rural areas to the cities. Part history and part social commentary, this volume covers almost every imaginable facet of the industry. The more than 340 alphabetical entries range from the products themselves, like Doritos and Oreos, to candy bar company icons like Milton Hershey and Frank Mars. A complete list of entries by topic includes bakery goods, beverages, candy, companies and corporations, fast food, health and nutrition, ice cream, special issues, organizations, people, restaurants and drive-ins, and non-candy snacks. Readers will experience a variety of emotions while perusing this book-nostalgia for the early days of the hamburger and childhood candy favorites as well as abhorrence at the descriptions of factory farming and the negative health effects of a "super-size-me" mentality. The sheer scope of information available here makes this book a must-have resource. The extensive bibliography and suggested readings will be invaluable tools for further research.
John Charles - Library Journal
Smith, author of such food-related books as Peanuts: The Illustrious History of the Goober Pea(Univ. of Illinois Pr., 2002) and editor in chief of the Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America(2004), tackles the billion-dollar market for junk food. In approximately 250 A-to-Z entries, each ranging from several paragraphs to several pages in length, Smith covers specific junk and fast foods (e.g., Snickers, M&Ms) and companies (e.g., Mars, McDonald's) as well as broader topics, such as the environmental and nutritional effects of these industries. Each entry includes at least one suggestion for further reading; a glossary of terms and a chronology of important events are a nice touch.
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