Candyfreak
Subtitle: a journey through the chocolate underbelly of America
By: Steve Almond
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9781565124219
Subjects: Sü warenindustrie; Candy industry; Candy; Chocolate
Description: A tour of the American candy business which explores the role candy plays in our lives as both source of pleasure and escape from pain.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: Some things you should know about the author; title: Author will now rationalize; title: Chocolate = enabler; title: In which an unhealthy pattern of dependence is established; title: Ill-advised discussion of freak economics; title: Night of the living freak; title: Mistakes were made; title: Caravelle: Elegy; title: I love Manny; title: Feeding the beast; title: Top-secret chocolate situation; title: Politics of the rack; title: Last man in America with black jack gum; title: Capo di tutti freak; title: Love song of Ray Luther Broekel; title: Welcome to the boom; title: There are men upon this earth who tread like gods; title: Feuilletine, revealed; title: Freak fetish; title: Official dark horse freak of Philadelphia; title: Wee Willie and the pop-a-licks rage; title: Southern-fried freak; title: Chocolate haiku; title: Freak retentive; title: In the belly of the freak; title: Unstoppable freak energy of Mr. Marty Palmer; title: Southbound with the hammers down; title: Candy bar on your chin; title: Marshmallow parallax; title: Depressing but necessary digression; title: Boise: Gateway to ... Boise; title: Ladies and gentlemen, the Idaho spud; title: Huckleberry, hounded; title: American lunch; title: How will the spud survive?; title: Past is just ahead; title: Remember this name: Banana-zaba; title: Second depressing but necessary digression; title: Little hidden bomb in my Idaho spud; title: Few final relevant facts; title: Acknowledgments; title: Freak appendix.