The secret financial life of food
Subtitle: from commodities markets to supermarkets
By: Kara Newman
Series: Arts and traditions of the table: perspectives on culinary history
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9780231156707; 9780231527347
Subjects: Food; Agriculture; Commodity exchanges; History
Description: An investigation into commodities trading, this text looks at how market conditions can influence what we eat and drink. Beginning in the marketplaces of ancient Rome, Kara Newman traces the growing commodification of food across the ages to the present day and the enormously influential Chicago Merchantile Exchange.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: How does commodities trading work?; title: The spice route; title: The commodity that built a nation: corn futures; title: Great grains; title: Butter and egg men; title: The mochaccino market: coffee, sugar, and cocoa; title: Cattle call; title: This little piggy made a market: the rise and fall of pork bellies; title: When money grows on trees: produce futures; title: Super soybeans; title: The future of food futures? Contracts to consider.