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Hamburger A History

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ISBN-10: 030015125X

ISBN-13: 9780300151251

Edition: 2009

Authors: Josh Ozersky, Mark Crispin Miller

List price: $14.00
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What do Americans think of when they think of the hamburger? A robust, succulent spheroid of fresh ground beef, the birthright of red-blooded citizens? Or a Styrofoam-shrouded Big Mac, mass-produced to industrial specifications and served by wage slaves to an obese, brainwashed population? Is it cooking or commodity? An icon of freedom or the quintessence of conformity? This fast-paced and entertaining book unfolds the immense significance of the hamburger as an American icon. Josh Ozersky shows how the history of the burger is entwined with American business and culture and, unexpectedly, how the burger's story is in many ways the story of the country that invented (and reinvented) it.…    
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Book details

List price: $14.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 5/26/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 160
Size: 5.47" wide x 8.19" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.418
Language: English

Elizabeth P. Benson has published numerous articles, monographs, and catalogue descriptions on the Moche. For many years, she worked with the Robert Woods Bliss Collection of Pre-Columbian Art, first at the National Gallery of Art and then at Dumbarton Oaks, where she installed the collection and established the pre-Columbian publication and fellowship programs. She has also lectured widely and has taught at American University, the Catholic University of America, Columbia University, and the University of Texas at Austin.Josh Ozersky is a James Beard Award-winning food writer and cultural historian, the author most recently of The Hamburger: A History. He writes on society and food for…