Fast Food Nation
Subtitle: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
By: Eric Schlosser ; [with a new afterword]
Edition: 1st Perennial ed. (8)
Publisher: Perennial; Harper Perennial
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York, NY, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 383
ISBN-13: 9780060938451
Copyright date: 2002
Subjects: Fast food restaurants -- United States.; Food industry and trade -- United States.; Convenience foods -- United States.
Description: Fast food has hastened the malling of our landscape, widened the chasm between rich and poor, fueled an epidemic of obesity, and propelled American cultural imperialism abroad. That's a lengthy list of charges, but here Eric Schlosser makes them stick with an artful mix of first-rate reportage, wry wit, and careful reasoning.

Schlosser's myth-shattering survey stretches from California's subdivisions where the business was born to the industrial corridor along the New Jersey Turnpike where many fast food's flavors are concocted. Along the way, he unearths a trove of fascinating, unsettling truths -- from the unholy alliance between fast food and Hollywood to the seismic changes the industry has wrought in food production, popular culture, and even real estate. 
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Notes: Originally published: New York : Houghton Mifflin, 2001.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [356]-361) and index.
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Table of contents: title: American way: Founding fathers; title: Your trusted friends; title: Behind the counter; title: Success; title: Meat and potatoes: Why the fries taste good; title: On the range; title: Cogs in the great machine; title: Most dangerous job; title: What's in the meat; title: Global realization; title: Epilogue: Have it your way; title: Afterword: Meaning of mad cow.