Fast Food Nation
Subtitle: the dark side of the all-American meal
Edition: First Harper Perennial edition (6)
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 383
ISBN-13: 9780060838584
Copyright date: 2002
First sentence: CHEYENNE MOUNTAIN SITS on the eastern slope of Colorado's Front Range, rising steeply from the prairie and overlooking the city of Colorado Springs.
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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Table of contents: title: American way: The founding fathers. Your trusted friends. Behind the counter. Success --; title: Meat and potatoes: Why the fries taste good. On the range. Cogs in the great machine. The most dangerous job. What's in the meat . Global realization --; title: Epilogue: Have it your way --; title: Afterword: The meaning of mad cow.