Moveable Feasts - Couverture souple

Murray, Sarah

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0312428146 ISBN 13 : 9780312428143

Editeur : Picador Paper, 2008

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Sarah Murray is author of Moveable Feasts: From Ancient Rome to the 21st Century, the Incredible Journeys of the Food We Eat. A longtime Financial Times contributor, she lives in New York City.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Picador Paper
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0312428146
• ISBN 13: 9780312428143
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 318
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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