Download or read book Crisis in Candyland written by Janice Pottker and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the story of the Mars family, their multinational company, and its successes and failures.

Download or read book Crisis in Candyland written by Jan Pottker and published by . This book was released on 2001-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For 75 years Mars, Inc., maker of such popular candies as Milky Way, Snickers & M&Ms, Dove Bars & Uncle Ben's Rice, has maintained a secret kingdom, hidden from the outside world. Mars is one of the largest family held companies in the world. A secretive clan controls Mars with an iron fist. Headed for a battle over succession, the Mars Family is a bizarre collection of cold & controlling characters, together worth more than $12 billion. Pottker exposes the eccentric personalities of the Mars family & reveals the Byzantine inner workings of Mars. She ponders whether Mars will thrive in the 21st century, or will the empire unravel as family members battle for control & competing businesses.

Download or read book Food and Drink in American History 3 volumes written by Andrew F. Smith and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 1715 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This three-volume encyclopedia on the history of American food and beverages serves as an ideal companion resource for social studies and American history courses, covering topics ranging from early American Indian foods to mandatory nutrition information at fast food restaurants. The expression "you are what you eat" certainly applies to Americans, not just in terms of our physical health, but also in the myriad ways that our taste preferences, eating habits, and food culture are intrinsically tied to our society and history. This standout reference work comprises two volumes containing more than 600 alphabetically arranged historical entries on American foods and beverages, as well as dozens of historical recipes for traditional American foods; and a third volume of more than 120 primary source documents. Never before has there been a reference work that coalesces this diverse range of information into a single set. The entries in this set provide information that will transform any American history research project into an engaging learning experience. Examples include explanations of how tuna fish became a staple food product for Americans, how the canning industry emerged from the Civil War, the difference between Americans and people of other countries in terms of what percentage of their income is spent on food and beverages, and how taxation on beverages like tea, rum, and whisky set off important political rebellions in U.S. history.

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Junk Food and Fast Food written by Andrew F. Smith and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2006-08-30 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Interest in these topics is high. This informative and fascinating work, with entries on current controversies such as mad cow disease and factory farming, the food pyramid, movie tie-ins, and marketing to children, will be highly useful for reports, research, and browsing. It takes readers behind the scenes, examining the significance of such things as uniforms, training, packaging, and franchising. Readers of every age will also enjoy the nostalgia factor, learning about the background of iconic drive-ins, the story behind the mascots, facts about their favorite candy bar, and collectables. Each entry ends with suggested reading. Besides an introduction, a timeline, glossary, bibliography, resource guide, and photos enhance the text. Sample entries: A&W Root Beer; Advertising; Automobiles; Ben & Jerry's; Burger King; Carhops; Center for Science in the Public Interest; Christmas; Cola Wars; Employment; Fair Food; Fast Food Nation; Hershey, Milton; Hollywood; Injury; Krispy Kreme; Lobbying; Nabisco; Obesity; PepsiCo; Salt; Soda Fountain; Teen Hangouts; Vegetarianism; White Castle; Yum! Brands, Inc.

Download or read book Bitter Chocolate written by Carol Off and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2016-04-18 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For most of us, chocolate is an indulgence synonymous with pleasure. But behind the sweet image of the cocoa bean there is a long history of exploitation, corruption, greed and slavery. In Bitter Chocolate, Carol Off traces the history of the cocoa craze from the eighteenth century onwards, through its evolution under such overseers as Hershey, Cadbury and Mars, and its connection to the violence in Cote d'lvoire, the West African nation that produces almost half of the world's cocoa beans. Groundbreaking and eye-opening, Bitter Chocolate is a social history, a passionate investigative account and a stirring exposé of the inner workings of a multi-billion dollar industry that has institutionalised misery as it has served our pleasures.

Download or read book Lickin the Beaters 2 written by Siue Moffat and published by PM Press. This book was released on 2010-12-08 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The beaters go on—in Lickin’ the Beaters 2: Vegan Chocolate and Candy, the second of Siue Moffat’s fun vegan dessert cookbooks. Themed around the duality of dessert—an angel on one shoulder and a devil on the other—Siue takes chocolate, candy and even ice creem (vegan alternative to ice cream) head-on with quirky illustrations, useful hints and a handy “Quick Recipe” indicator to make using this book simple and amusing. With an understanding that dessert should be an indulgence, Moffat provides vegan renditions of tantalizing delicacies both traditional and original. Recipes include old favorites such as Carmel Corn, Salt Water Taffy, Pralines, Cookies, Cakes, and Fudge as well as some brave new recipes like Fabulous Flourless Chocolate Torte and Toll-Free Chocolate Chip cookies.

Download or read book Food Lit written by Melissa Brackney Stoeger and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-01-08 with total page 691 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential tool for assisting leisure readers interested in topics surrounding food, this unique book contains annotations and read-alikes for hundreds of nonfiction titles about the joys of comestibles and cooking. Food Lit: A Reader's Guide to Epicurean Nonfiction provides a much-needed resource for librarians assisting adult readers interested in the topic of food—a group that is continuing to grow rapidly. Containing annotations of hundreds of nonfiction titles about food that are arranged into genre and subject interest categories for easy reference, the book addresses a diversity of reading experiences by covering everything from foodie memoirs and histories of food to extreme cuisine and food exposés. Author Melissa Stoeger has organized and described hundreds of nonfiction titles centered on the themes of food and eating, including life stories, history, science, and investigative nonfiction. The work emphasizes titles published in the past decade without overlooking significant benchmark and classic titles. It also provides lists of suggested read-alikes for those titles, and includes several helpful appendices of fiction titles featuring food, food magazines, and food blogs.

Download or read book The Economics of Chocolate written by Mara P. Squicciarini and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, written by global experts, provides a comprehensive and topical analysis on the economics of chocolate. While the main approach is economic analysis, there are important contributions from other disciplines, including psychology, history, government, nutrition, and geography. The chapters are organized around several themes, including the history of cocoa and chocolate -- from cocoa drinks in the Maya empire to the growing sales of Belgian chocolates in China; how governments have used cocoa and chocolate as a source of tax revenue and have regulated chocolate (and defined it by law) to protect consumers' health from fraud and industries from competition; how the poor cocoa producers in developing countries are linked through trade and multinational companies with rich consumers in industrialized countries; and how the rise of consumption in emerging markets (China, India, and Africa) is causing a major boom in global demand and prices, and a potential shortage of the world's chocolate.

Download or read book Head in the Clouds Feet on the Ground written by Jeffrey L Bullington and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-13 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Head in the Clouds, Feet on the Ground: Serials Vision and Common Sense is a compilation of presentations from the proceedings of the 13th annual North American Serials Interest Group, Inc. Conference held June 18-21, 1998, at the University of Colorado at Boulder. From this informative book, you will discover technology trends that will impact the relationship among authors, publishers, and libraries including the shift to digital masters; the rising importance of the web and its impact on the economics, manufacturing, and distribution of publishing; and the growth of the World Wide Web as the gateway to what people get from libraries. Through Head in the Clouds, Feet on the Ground, you will also find guidance in good design principals for your libraries Web page or Web site. Head in the Clouds, Feet on the Ground will help you discover why planning is the first step in web design as your consideration of your target audience as well as their preferences and technical level are very important to your design. Also discussed are such important issues as Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), designing interactive forms, pages with or without frames, and graphics animation. From Head in the Clouds, Feet on the Ground, you will gain valuable insight into many unique areas, such as: Neodata--the world’s largest magazine fulfillment center the astronomy World Wide Web infrastructure named Urania the current and future pricing of Scientific, Technical, and Medical (STM) information distribution how to use project teams to evaluate and implement new services for electronic serials discovering what you can do to help better prepare your library for the inevitable disaster learning how the steps your institution takes now can make the difference between prompt, effective action or unnecessary collection and equipment loss examining four issues raised by library consortia regarding electronic journals: pricing, authorization systems, integration, and permanent digital archives to help you meet the changing needs of your patrons the successes and failures that well-known print newspapers who have launched successful Web versions encountered along the way Through Head in the Clouds, Feet on the Ground you will find vision as well as common sense advice and practical methods to help you get your job done. You'll discover many practical insights on information delivery and use trends that will effect higher education, libraries, and publishing and examine evaluative criteria for online resources as well as other new library services. You will find each section of Head in the Clouds, Feet on the Ground practical and informative and discover that each idea or piece of advice can be incorporated into your own area of expertise. It is the editors hope that you gain vision and common sense from every word.

Download or read book Fast Food and Junk Food 2 volumes written by Andrew F. Smith and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-12-02 with total page 906 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating and revealing work examines the incredible power of junk food and fast food—how nostalgic we are about them, the influence of the companies that manufacture or sell them, and their alarming effect on our country's state of health. In the last half century, junk food and fast food have come to play an extremely important role in American economic, historical, cultural, and social life. Today, they have a major influence on what Americans eat—and how healthy we are (or aren't). Fast Food and Junk Food: An Encyclopedia of What We Love to Eat tells the intriguing, fun, and incredible stories behind the successes of these commercial food products and documents the numerous health-related, environmental, cultural, and politico-economic issues associated with them. With more than 700 alphabetically arranged entries, this two-volume encyclopedia contains enough listings to allow readers to research a wide range of fascinating topics. The author treats the massive amount of subject material within this reference title in a fair and balanced manner. A secondary focus of this encyclopedia is to chart the spread of some American fast food chains and commercially produced junk foods internationally.

Download or read book Your Family Inc written by Terry S Trepper and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-02 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you know eighty-five percent of family firms do not survive the third generation? Your Family, Inc.: Practical Tips for Building a Healthy Family Business will help the busy entrepreneur lower this drastic failure rate by providing great tips and practical advice for creating a successful and pleasant environment when working in the family business. Containing unique and valuable hints for building a better business, this book uses specific examples designed for different situations. Filled with suggestions and proven advice, this important guide offers important ideas on deciding which family members should control stock, who should first work in another company to gain experience, and how to determine which individuals should make business decisions, and much more. Your Family, Inc. offers you specific steps to help avoid common problems and pitfalls with such insightful tips as: recognizing the dangers of a family triangle to avoid any problems before they become detrimental to the company realizing the difference between being asked to respond as a family member--parent, daughter, uncle, or son--and when the problem relates to business developing strategies to keep the family firm accountable by developing a group of advisors that may include the corporate attorney, accountant, or CEOs of noncompeting industries making business decisions for the right reasons, and building consensus in the family to support the decisions creating criteria for future leadership in advance by recognizing the direction the industry is taking, the needs of the company and the values of the family From Your Family, Inc., you will discover how healthy families and healthy family firms develop practical decision-making processes which will endure for generations to come. This essential book provides you with practical information to help your family business improve family relations and to positively impact business now and for future generations.

Download or read book Will Write for Food written by Dianne Jacob and published by Da Capo Lifelong Books. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The go-to soup-to-nuts guide on how to really make money from food writing, both in print and online With recipe-driven blogs, cookbooks, reviews, and endless foodie websites, food writing is ever in demand. In this award-winning guide, noted journalist and writing instructor Dianne Jacob offers tips and strategies for getting published and other ways to turn your passion into cash, whether it's in print or online. With insider secrets and helpful advice from award-winning writers, agents, and editors, Will Write for Food is still the essential guide to go from starving artist to well-fed writer.

Download or read book It Happened in Minnesota written by Darrell Ehrlick and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating collection of thirty compelling stories about events that shaped the North Star State, It Happened in Minnesota describes everything from harrowing shootouts with Sioux Indians to the mass execution of thirty-eight men, a bank robbery by Jesse James to the opening of the Mall of America. In an easy-to-read style that is entertaining as well as informative, It Happened in Minnesota will interest people of all ages.

Download or read book Consuming Agency in Fairy Tales Childlore and Folkliterature written by Susan Honeyman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book Honeyman looks at manifestations of youth agency (and representations of agency produced for youth) as depicted in fairy tales, childlore and folk literature, investigating the dynamic of ideological manipulation and independent resistance as it can be read or expressed in bodies, first through social puppetry and then through coercive temptation (our consumption replacing the more obvious strings that bind us). Reading tales like Popeye, Hansel & Gretel, and Pinocchio, Honeyman concentrates on the agency of young subjects through material relations, especially where food signifies the invisible strings used to control them in popular discourse and practice, modeling efforts to come out from under the hegemonic handler and take control, at least of their own body spaces, and ultimately finding that most examples indicate less power than the ideal holds.

Download or read book Eating History written by Andrew F. Smith and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2009-09-18 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Food expert and celebrated food historian Andrew F. Smith recounts in delicious detail the creation of contemporary American cuisine. The diet of the modern American wasn't always as corporate, conglomerated, and corn-rich as it is today, and the style of American cooking, along with the ingredients that compose it, has never been fixed. With a cast of characters including bold inventors, savvy restaurateurs, ruthless advertisers, mad scientists, adventurous entrepreneurs, celebrity chefs, and relentless health nuts, Smith pins down the truly crackerjack history behind the way America eats. Smith's story opens with early America, an agriculturally independent nation where most citizens grew and consumed their own food. Over the next two hundred years, however, Americans would cultivate an entirely different approach to crops and consumption. Advances in food processing, transportation, regulation, nutrition, and science introduced highly complex and mechanized methods of production. The proliferation of cookbooks, cooking shows, and professionally designed kitchens made meals more commercially, politically, and culturally potent. To better understand these trends, Smith delves deeply and humorously into their creation. Ultimately he shows how, by revisiting this history, we can reclaim the independent, locally sustainable roots of American food.

Download or read book The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America written by Andrew Smith and published by . This book was released on 2013-01-31 with total page 2556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Home cooks and gourmets, chefs and restaurateurs, epicures, and simple food lovers of all stripes will delight in this smorgasbord of the history and culture of food and drink. Professor of Culinary History Andrew Smith and nearly 200 authors bring together in 770 entries the scholarship on wide-ranging topics from airline and funeral food to fad diets and fast food; drinks like lemonade, Kool-Aid, and Tang; foodstuffs like Jell-O, Twinkies, and Spam; and Dagwood, hoagie, and Sloppy Joe sandwiches.

Download or read book A Conspiratorial Life written by Edward H. Miller and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2023-04-19 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full-scale biography of Robert Welch, who founded the John Birch Society and planted some of modern conservatism’s most insidious seeds. Though you may not know his name, Robert Welch (1899-1985)—founder of the John Birch Society—is easily one of the most significant architects of our current political moment. In A Conspiratorial Life, the first full-scale biography of Welch, Edward H. Miller delves deep into the life of an overlooked figure whose ideas nevertheless reshaped the American right. A child prodigy who entered college at age 12, Welch became an unlikely candy magnate, founding the company that created Sugar Daddies, Junior Mints, and other famed confections. In 1958, he funneled his wealth into establishing the organization that would define his legacy and change the face of American politics: the John Birch Society. Though the group’s paranoiac right-wing nativism was dismissed by conservative thinkers like William F. Buckley, its ideas gradually moved from the far-right fringe into the mainstream. By exploring the development of Welch’s political worldview, A Conspiratorial Life shows how the John Birch Society’s rabid libertarianism—and its highly effective grassroots networking—became a profound, yet often ignored or derided influence on the modern Republican Party. Miller convincingly connects the accusatory conservatism of the midcentury John Birch Society to the inflammatory rhetoric of the Tea Party, the Trump administration, Q, and more. As this book makes clear, whether or not you know his name or what he accomplished, it’s hard to deny that we’re living in Robert Welch’s America.