Geography of Digestion (eBook)

Biotechnology and the Kellogg Cereal Enterprise

Nicholas Bauch (Autor)

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2016
240 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-96118-0 (ISBN)

Infos

A Geography of Digestion is a highly original exploration of the legacy of the Kellogg Company, one of America's most enduring and storied food enterprises. In the late nineteenth century, company founder John H. Kellogg was experimenting with state-of-the-art advances in nutritional and medical science at his Battle Creek Sanitarium. Believing that good health depended on digesting the right foods in the right way, Kellogg thought that proper digestion could not happen without improved technologies, including innovations in food-processing machinery, urban sewer infrastructure, and agricultural production that changed the way Americans consumed and assimilated food. Asking his readers to think about mapping the processes and locations of digestion, Nicholas Bauch moves outward from the stomach to the sanitarium and through the landscape, clarifying the relationship between food, body, and environment at a crucial moment in the emergence of American health food sensibilities.

Inhalt

List of Illustrations

Introduction: Spatially Extending the Digestive System

1. The Battle Creek Sanitarium: A Place of Health
2. Scientific Eating: Kellogg’s Philosophy of the Modern Stomach
3. Flaked Cereal: The Moment of Invention
4. Extending the Digestive System into the Urban Landscape
5. The Systematization of Agriculture
6. Breakfast Cereal in the Twentieth Century

Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.10.2016
• Reihe/Serie: California Studies in Food and Culture
• Reihe/Serie: California Studies in Food and Culture
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Essen / Trinken ► Grundkochbücher
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft
• Schlagworte: Battle Creek Sanitarium • Biotechnology • california studies in food • cereal • Digestion • digestion research • digestive research • digestive tract • Food • food and agriculture • Food and Nutrition • Food Innovation • food mapping • Food Processing • food science • Food Studies • Food Technology • Gastrology • gut health • Kellogg • kellogg company • making food • making food digestible • making food nutritious • nutritionists • Nutrition research • scientists
• ISBN-10: 0-520-96118-8 / 0520961188
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-96118-0 / 9780520961180