Food Industry

The Slow Food movement was set up in Italy as a response to the dominance of fast food chains, supermarkets and large-scale agribusiness. It seeks to defend what it calls 'the universal right to pleasure' and promotes an alternative approach to food...

Neoliberals often point to improvements in public health and nutrition as examples of globalisation's success, but this book argues that the corporate food and medicine industries are destroying environments and ruining living conditions across the world...

Neoliberals often point to improvements in public health and nutrition as examples of globalisation's success, but this book argues that the corporate food and medicine industries are destroying environments and ruining living conditions across the world...

A key to the long-term success of a food business is being able to regularly review and advance its operations, products and services. Drawing on their industry and academic expertise the authors have identified three vital aspects of food business...

When's the last time you picked up a business book that was so engaging you couldn't put it down? Steve Difillippo was only 24 when he opened his first Davio's restaurant. Since then, he's wowed Julia Child with his pomodoro, overlooked some triple-X...

Coca-Cola is the world's best-known brand, and perhaps the most quintessentially American one: a beverage with no nutritional value, sold variously as a remedy, a tonic and a refreshment. The story of Coca-Cola is also a tale of carbonisation, soda...

This book provides an overview of the history of food policy in the UK, tracing economic, social and political influences from the 1840s to present day. It's of interest to students and scholars, policymakers and professionals in agricultural policy, as...

Chocolate touches every part of life, from joy to sorrow. This book explores its journey from exotic rarity to everyday favorite.

Why our love affair with processed meat is killing us. The chilling expose the food industry doesn't want YOU to see.They're totally delicious. We love crispy bacon with our eggs for breakfast, and ham sandwiches for lunch. Lucie Morris-Marr's family was...

Drawing on a range of case studies from across Latin America, this book highlights the ways that urbanization shapes the food systems that feed this region's cities, approaching the problem of food in cities as a particularly urban problem.Latin America...

This 3rd edition of Food Policy in the United States offers a timely update to the leading textbook dedicated to all aspects of food policy in the United States.This book begins with the economic interests of farmers and food producers and then moves on...

Consumers are demanding healthy, natural food products with no environmental impacts. The use of ingredients of plant origin and the implementation of bioprocesses using enzymes and micro-organisms as biocatalysts represent a promising alternative to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590567364Author Isabella La Rocca GonzalezFormat HardbackPage Count 188Imprint Lantern Books,USPublisher Lantern Books,US

A shocking and unputdownable expose of the United States meat industry and the growing disappointment of alternative meat producers that "is required reading for anyone who eats" (Christopher Leonard, New York Timesbestselling author). Well before...