num_pages: 160
description: Object Lessons is a series of short beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.The burger long the All-American meal is undergoing an identity crisis. From its shifting place in popular culture to the efforts by investors like Bill Gates to seek to find the non-animal burger that can feed the world the burger's identity has become as malleable as that patty of protein itself before it is thrown on a grill. Carol Adams's Burger is a fast-paced and eclectic exploration of the history business cultural dynamics and gender politics of the ordinary hamburger.Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.
language: English
title: Burger
publisher: Bloomsbury Academic