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Grocery : the buying and selling of food in America
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ISBN: 1613129998 Year: 2022 Publisher: New York, New York : Abrams Press,

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Michael Ruhlman offers 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. 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. Grocery examines how rapidly supermarkets -- and our food and culture -- have changed since the days of your friendly neighborhood grocer. But rather than waxing nostalgic for the age of mom-and-pop shops, Ruhlman seeks to understand how our food needs have shifted since the mid-twentieth century, and how these needs mirror our cultural ones.


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How the Shopping Cart Explains Global Consumerism.
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ISBN: 9780520968097 0520968093 9780520295285 0520295285 9780520295292 0520295293 Year: 2019 Publisher: Berkeley University of California Press

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Picture a familiar scene: long lines of shoppers waiting to check out at the grocery store, carts filled to the brim with the week's food. While many might wonder what is in each cart, Andrew Warnes implores us to consider the symbolism of the cart itself. In his inventive new book, Warnes examines how the everyday shopping cart is connected to a complex web of food production and consumption that has spread from the United States throughout the world. Today, shopping carts represent choice and autonomy for consumers, a recognizable American way of life that has become a global phenomenon. This succinct and and accessible book provides an excellent overview of consumerism and the globalization of American culture.


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How the Shopping Cart Explains Global Consumerism
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ISBN: 0520968093 Year: 2019 Publisher: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press,

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Picture a familiar scene: long lines of shoppers waiting to check out at the grocery store, carts filled to the brim with the week's food. While many might wonder what is in each cart, Andrew Warnes implores us to consider the symbolism of the cart itself. In his inventive new book, Warnes examines how the everyday shopping cart is connected to a complex web of food production and consumption that has spread from the United States throughout the world. Today, shopping carts represent choice and autonomy for consumers, a recognizable American way of life that has become a global phenomenon. This succinct and and accessible book provides an excellent overview of consumerism and the globalization of American culture.


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Retail Strategies to Support Healthy Eating
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Year: 2021 Publisher: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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In January 2020, the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), The Food Trust, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Healthy Eating Research (HER) met for a Healthy Retail Research Convention in Washington, D.C. Attendees included food industry representatives, researchers, and nonprofit organizations. The objective of the convention was to develop a national healthy retail research agenda by (1) determining the effectiveness of government policies, corporate practices, and in-store pilots in promoting healthy eating; (2) identifying gaps in the healthy food retail literature and generating questions for future research, with an intentional focus on reducing health disparities and improving equity; (3) highlighting best practices for partnering with retailers and food manufacturers on healthy retail research; (4) facilitating relationships between retailers and researchers to implement and evaluate retail interventions; and (5) identifying existing datasets, ongoing work, and new opportunities for retail–research partnerships.


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Retail Strategies to Support Healthy Eating
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Year: 2021 Publisher: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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In January 2020, the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), The Food Trust, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Healthy Eating Research (HER) met for a Healthy Retail Research Convention in Washington, D.C. Attendees included food industry representatives, researchers, and nonprofit organizations. The objective of the convention was to develop a national healthy retail research agenda by (1) determining the effectiveness of government policies, corporate practices, and in-store pilots in promoting healthy eating; (2) identifying gaps in the healthy food retail literature and generating questions for future research, with an intentional focus on reducing health disparities and improving equity; (3) highlighting best practices for partnering with retailers and food manufacturers on healthy retail research; (4) facilitating relationships between retailers and researchers to implement and evaluate retail interventions; and (5) identifying existing datasets, ongoing work, and new opportunities for retail–research partnerships.


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Retail Strategies to Support Healthy Eating
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Year: 2021 Publisher: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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In January 2020, the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), The Food Trust, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Healthy Eating Research (HER) met for a Healthy Retail Research Convention in Washington, D.C. Attendees included food industry representatives, researchers, and nonprofit organizations. The objective of the convention was to develop a national healthy retail research agenda by (1) determining the effectiveness of government policies, corporate practices, and in-store pilots in promoting healthy eating; (2) identifying gaps in the healthy food retail literature and generating questions for future research, with an intentional focus on reducing health disparities and improving equity; (3) highlighting best practices for partnering with retailers and food manufacturers on healthy retail research; (4) facilitating relationships between retailers and researchers to implement and evaluate retail interventions; and (5) identifying existing datasets, ongoing work, and new opportunities for retail–research partnerships.


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Uneasy Street : The Anxieties of Affluence
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ISBN: 0691191905 0691195161 Year: 2019 Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press,

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A surprising and revealing look at how today's elite view their wealth and place in societyFrom TV's "real housewives" to The Wolf of Wall Street, our popular culture portrays the wealthy as materialistic and entitled. But what do we really know about those who live on "easy street"? In this penetrating book, Rachel Sherman draws on rare in-depth interviews that she conducted with fifty affluent New Yorkers-from hedge fund financiers and artists to stay-at-home mothers-to examine their lifestyle choices and understanding of privilege. Sherman upends images of wealthy people as invested only in accruing social advantages for themselves and their children. Instead, these liberal elites, who believe in diversity and meritocracy, feel conflicted about their position in a highly unequal society. As the distance between rich and poor widens, Uneasy Street not only explores the lives of those at the top but also sheds light on how extreme inequality comes to seem ordinary and acceptable to the rest of us.

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Rich people --- Social classes --- Social stratification --- Wealth --- Advertising. --- African Americans. --- Allusion. --- Ambivalence. --- Awareness. --- Babysitting. --- Behalf. --- Career. --- Child care. --- Clothing. --- Community service. --- Competition. --- Concierge. --- Conspicuous consumption. --- Consumer. --- Consumption (economics). --- Cultural capital. --- Debt. --- Disadvantage. --- Domestic worker. --- Economic inequality. --- Economics. --- Egalitarianism. --- Employment. --- Entitlement. --- Entrepreneurship. --- Eric Klinenberg. --- Euphemism. --- Expense. --- Finance. --- Furniture. --- Grandparent. --- Grocery store. --- Handbag. --- His Family. --- Household income. --- Household. --- Housewife. --- Income distribution. --- Income. --- Institution. --- Interior design. --- Interview. --- Juliet Schor. --- Laundry. --- Legitimation. --- Lifestyle management. --- Luxury goods. --- Meritocracy. --- Middle class. --- Money management. --- My Child. --- Narrative. --- Nest Egg. --- Net worth. --- New York University. --- Nonprofit organization. --- Norm (social). --- Obligation. --- Organization. --- Parenting. --- Percentage. --- Personal assistant. --- Personhood. --- Philanthropy. --- Politician. --- Popular culture. --- Private school. --- Public Knowledge. --- Puritans. --- Real estate appraisal. --- Real estate broker. --- Relative deprivation. --- Renovation. --- Reproductive labor. --- Respondent. --- Retirement. --- Safety net. --- Salary. --- Saving. --- Self-sufficiency. --- Service provider. --- Sibling. --- Snob. --- Social class. --- Social inequality. --- Social reproduction. --- Society. --- Spendthrift. --- Spouse. --- Tax. --- The Other Hand. --- Trade-off. --- Unpaid work. --- Upper class. --- Volunteering. --- Wealth. --- Work ethic. --- Working class. --- Year.


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Enchanted by Daphne : The Life of an Evolutionary Naturalist
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ISBN: 0691246297 Year: 2023 Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press,

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"The extraordinary life story of the celebrated naturalist who transformed our understanding of evolution Enchanted by Daphne is legendary ecologist Peter Grant's personal account of his remarkable life and career. In this revelatory book, Grant takes readers from his childhood in World War II-era Britain to his ongoing research today in the Galápagos archipelago, vividly describing what it is like to do fieldwork in one of the most magnificent yet inhospitable places on Earth. This is also the story of two brilliant and courageous biologists as they raised a family together while balancing the demands of professional lives that would take them to the far corners of the globe. In 1973, Grant and his wife Rosemary embarked on a journey that would fundamentally change how we think about evolution. Over the next four decades, they visited the Galápagos every year to observe Darwin's famous finches on the remote, uninhabited island of Daphne Major. Documenting how eighteen species have diversified from a single ancestral species, they demonstrated that we could actually see and measure evolution in a natural setting. Grant recounts the blind alleys and breathtaking triumphs of this historic research as he and Rosemary followed in Darwin's footsteps-and ushered in a new era in ecology. A wonderfully absorbing portrait of a life in science, Enchanted by Daphne is an unforgettable chronicle of the travels and discoveries of one of the world's most influential naturalists"--

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Grant, Peter R., --- Biologists --- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Environmentalists & Naturalists --- SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Zoology / General --- Autobiography. --- Award. --- Aztec Art. --- Babysitting. --- Balzan Prize. --- Bandage. --- Big Bird. --- Biochemistry. --- Biologist. --- Biology. --- Botswana. --- Bursera. --- Canary Islands. --- Career. --- Charles Darwin. --- Clothing. --- Clusia. --- Cordia. --- Courtship. --- Criticism. --- Cyperaceae. --- Daphne Major. --- Dartmoor. --- Darwin's finches. --- Distemper (paint). --- Dormitory. --- Drierite. --- Ecology. --- Ecosystem. --- Filter paper. --- Fritillaria. --- Front de libération du Québec. --- Geneticist. --- Grocery store. --- Gustavus Adolphus College. --- Head of state. --- His Master's Voice. --- Honeycreeper. --- Honorary degree. --- Hunter-gatherer. --- Imitation. --- Inbreeding. --- Insect. --- Jaw. --- John Maynard Smith. --- Kinkaku-ji. --- Laborer. --- Lecture. --- Limnology. --- Liqueur. --- London Zoo. --- Luc Hoffmann. --- Lunch. --- Magnirostris. --- Mangrove. --- McGill University. --- Meal. --- Molecular biology. --- New Guinea. --- Night heron. --- Nobel Conference. --- North America. --- Oak savanna. --- Paiute. --- Paleontology. --- Pangolin. --- Peat. --- Physical therapy. --- Pierre Trudeau. --- Pig slaughter. --- Pika. --- Pizza. --- Plate (dishware). --- Plough. --- Plumage. --- Plumbeous pigeon. --- Power steering. --- Prayer wheel. --- Provision (contracting). --- Pterin. --- Puffbird. --- Rainforest. --- Reproductive success. --- Sea lion. --- Sea-lion. --- Social group. --- Summer camp. --- Supervisor. --- Tentacle. --- The Various. --- Third grade. --- Total Immersion (augmented reality). --- Transvaal Museum. --- Turku. --- Uluru. --- Upholstery. --- Vegetation. --- Wistman's Wood. --- Xi'an. --- Zoology.


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The Left Behind : Decline and Rage in Small-Town America
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ISBN: 0691191662 0691195153 Year: 2019 Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press,

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How a fraying social fabric is fueling the outrage of rural AmericansWhat is fueling rural America's outrage toward the federal government? Why did rural Americans vote overwhelmingly for Donald Trump? And is there a more nuanced explanation for the growing rural-urban divide? Drawing on more than a decade of research and hundreds of interviews, Robert Wuthnow brings us into America's small towns, farms, and rural communities to paint a rich portrait of the moral order-the interactions, loyalties, obligations, and identities-underpinning this critical segment of the nation. Wuthnow demonstrates that to truly understand rural Americans' anger, their culture must be explored more fully, and he shows that rural America's fury stems less from economic concerns than from the perception that Washington is distant from and yet threatening to the social fabric of small towns. Moving beyond simplistic depictions of America's heartland, The Left Behind offers a clearer picture of how this important population will influence the nation's political future.

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Sociology, Rural --- Working class white people --- Communities --- Rural population --- Cities and towns --- Attitudes. --- Attitudes. --- United States --- United States --- United States --- Social conditions --- Public opinion. --- Politics and government --- Public opinion. --- Rural conditions --- Abortion. --- Activism. --- Affair. --- Affordable housing. --- African Americans. --- Americans. --- Barack Obama. --- Big government. --- Bigotry. --- Career. --- City manager. --- Community leader. --- Community organization. --- Community spirit. --- Conceptualization (information science). --- County seat. --- Criticism. --- Crop insurance. --- Deliberation. --- Driveway. --- Economic development. --- Emergency management. --- Employment. --- Entrepreneurship. --- Environmentalist. --- Ethics. --- Exclusion. --- Farmhouse. --- Funding. --- George W. Bush. --- Grain elevator. --- Grocery store. --- Hate crime. --- Headline. --- Hillary Clinton. --- Homophobia. --- Homosexuality. --- Household. --- Income. --- Indication (medicine). --- Insider. --- John Deere. --- Legislation. --- Local community. --- Lunch. --- Meals on Wheels. --- Mexicans. --- Migrant worker. --- Mr. --- Multiculturalism. --- Narrative. --- Natural disaster. --- New England town. --- New People. --- North Dakota. --- Origins (Judge Dredd story). --- Pickup truck. --- Planned Parenthood. --- Politician. --- Politics. --- Population decline. --- Populism. --- Poverty. --- Prejudice. --- Princeton University Press. --- Proportion (architecture). --- Public figure. --- Public housing. --- Racism. --- Randall Collins. --- Religion. --- Resentment. --- Residence. --- Restaurant. --- Rural America. --- Rural area. --- Rural housing. --- Rush Limbaugh. --- Self-sufficiency. --- Sensibility. --- Setback (architecture). --- Small business. --- Sociology. --- Spouse. --- State government. --- Statistic. --- Suburb. --- Tax. --- The New York Times. --- The Other Hand. --- This Country. --- Thorstein Veblen. --- Town council. --- Uncertainty. --- Unemployment. --- Vegetable. --- Voluntary association. --- Volunteering. --- Voting. --- Welfare.


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Getting something to eat in Jackson : race, class, and food in the American south
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ISBN: 0691203946 0691230676 0691253870 Year: 2021 Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press,

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A vivid portrait of African American life in today's urban South that uses food to explore the complex interactions of race and classGetting Something to Eat in Jackson uses food-what people eat and how-to explore the interaction of race and class in the lives of African Americans in the contemporary urban South. Joseph Ewoodzie Jr. examines how "foodways"-food availability, choice, and consumption-vary greatly between classes of African Americans in Jackson, Mississippi, and how this reflects and shapes their very different experiences of a shared racial identity.Ewoodzie spent more than a year following a group of socioeconomically diverse African Americans-from upper-middle-class patrons of the city's fine-dining restaurants to men experiencing homelessness who must organize their days around the schedules of soup kitchens. Ewoodzie goes food shopping, cooks, and eats with a young mother living in poverty and a grandmother working two jobs. He works in a Black-owned BBQ restaurant, and he meets a man who decides to become a vegan for health reasons but who must drive across town to get tofu and quinoa. Ewoodzie also learns about how soul food is changing and why it is no longer a staple survival food. Throughout, he shows how food choices influence, and are influenced by, the racial and class identities of Black Jacksonians.By tracing these contemporary African American foodways, Getting Something to Eat in Jackson offers new insights into the lives of Black Southerners and helps challenge the persistent homogenization of blackness in American life.

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Ethnology --- African Americans --- African Americans --- African Americans --- Social classes --- Cooking, American --- African Americans --- Food security --- Food habits --- Social conditions. --- Social life and customs. --- Race identity --- Southern style --- History. --- Food --- History. --- History. --- Mississippi --- Jackson (Miss.) --- Social conditions. --- Affirmative action. --- Africa. --- African Americans. --- African-American Civil Rights Movement (1954–68). --- Alternative newspaper. --- Anchoring. --- Atlantic slave trade. --- Availability. --- Banquet. --- Barbecue. --- Beef. --- Biscuit. --- Black Metropolis. --- Black Panther Party. --- Black in America. --- Black people. --- Black pride. --- Black-eyed pea. --- Boutique. --- Bread pudding. --- Bread. --- Brown bread. --- Cafeteria. --- Census block. --- Community development. --- Cooking. --- Corn fritter. --- Cornmeal. --- Cuisine. --- Customer. --- Dessert. --- Dining room. --- Dried fruit. --- Eating. --- Eric Foner. --- Eugene Genovese. --- Extended family. --- Fast food restaurant. --- Flour. --- Food choice. --- Food security. --- Food. --- Foodways. --- Freedom Riders. --- Grocery store. --- His Family. --- Homelessness. --- House slave. --- Jackson State University. --- Jim Crow laws. --- Johnnycake. --- King Edward Hotel (Jackson, Mississippi). --- Local food. --- Lunch. --- Macaroni and cheese. --- Meal. --- Middle class. --- Mourner. --- Nadir of American race relations. --- Napkin. --- Natural foods. --- New York-style pizza. --- Nutrition. --- Organic food. --- Pig roast. --- Plantations in the American South. --- Pork. --- Racial segregation. --- Reconstruction Era. --- Restaurant. --- Salad. --- Salt pork. --- Sausage. --- Sharecropping. --- Sit-in. --- Slavery. --- Social class. --- Social structure. --- Sociology. --- Sorghum. --- Soul food. --- Southern Democrats. --- St. Clair Drake. --- Supper. --- Sweet potato. --- Tablecloth. --- Take-out. --- Tamale. --- The Lunch (Velázquez). --- Their Lives. --- Tougaloo College. --- Turnip. --- Upper middle class. --- Urban renewal. --- Vegetable. --- W. E. B. Du Bois. --- Welfare. --- White Southerners. --- Whole Foods Market. --- ZIP code.

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