Grocery: The Buying and Selling of Food in America
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| Rating | : | 4.99 (821 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1419723863 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-05-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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Manager's Special in Cleveland David Wineberg Like grocery stores themselves, Michael Ruhlman’s Grocery is all over the place, stuffed to the rafters, with numerous departments and unexpected items. It is a lot of memoir, a smattering of rants, endless lists, and a bunch of behind the scenes nego. Educational and Entertaining G I bought this book to educate myself on the world of grocery retailing as I'm in the middle of the interviewing process with a medium-sized grocery store chain based in North Carolina (that was mentioned once in this book). I've been in retail advertising f. "Superb Examination of the Grocery Business" according to Eric Mayforth. In the United States grocery stores are so commonplace that we generally take them for granted and rarely think about them and just how important they are. Michael Ruhlman grew up in Cleveland with a father who loved grocery stores, and eventually took such
"Anyone who has ever walked into a grocery store or who has ever cooked food from a grocery store or who has ever eaten food from a grocery store must read Grocery. It is food journalism at its best and I’m so freakin’ jealous I didn’t write it."
Grocery examines how rapidly supermarkets—and our food and culture—have changed since the days of your friendly neighborhood grocer. Ruhlman proposes that the best practices for consuming wisely could be hiding in plain sight—in the aisles of your local supermarket. Using the human story of the family-run Midwestern chain Heinen’s as an anchor to this journalistic narrative, he dives into the mysterious world of supermarkets and the ways in which we produce, consume, and distribute food. In Grocery, bestselling author Michael Ruhlman offers incisive commentary on America’s relationship with its food and investigates the overlooked source of so much of it—the grocery store. In a culture obsessed with food—how it looks, what it tastes like, where it comes from, what is good for us—there are often more questions than answers. A mix of reportage and rant, personal history and social commentary, Grocery is a landmark book from one of our most insightful food writers.. But rather than waxing nostalgic for the age of mom-and-pop shops, Ruhlman seeks to understand how our f