Fresh

We want fresh foods to keep us healthy, and to connect us to nature and community. We also want them convenient, pretty, and cheap. This title traces our paradoxical hunger to its roots in the rise of mass consumption, when freshness seemed both proof of and an antidote to progress.

Auteur

Susanne Freidberg is Associate Professor of Geography at Dartmouth College.

Texte du rabat

That rosy tomato perched on your plate in December is at the end of a great journey-not just over land and sea, but across a vast and varied cultural history. This is the territory charted in Fresh. Freidberg takes six common foods from the refrigerator to discover what each has to say about our notions of freshness.

Contenu

• Introduction Refrigeration: Cold Revolution Beef: Mobile Meat Eggs: Shell Games Fruit: Ephemeral Beauty Vegetables: Hidden Labor Milk: Border Politics Fish: Wild Life Epilogue Notes Bibliography Acknowledgments Index