by Daniel Stone From the publisher: The true adventures of David Fairchild, a late-nineteenth-century food explorer who traveled the globe and introduced diverse crops like avocados, mangoes, seedless grapes—and thousands more—to […]
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Colonel Sanders and the American Dream
by Josh Ozersky From the publisher: This engrossing biography of Kentucky Fried Chicken/KFC founder Harland Sanders tells a uniquely American story of a dirt-poor striver with unlimited ambition who launched one […]
Man Who Changed the Way We Eat: Craig Claiborne and the American Food Renaissance
by Thomas McNamee From the publisher: In 1957, America was a gastronomic wasteland. One man changed all that. From his perch at the New York Times, Craig Claiborne led America’s food revolution. He […]
Birdseye: a biography of Clarence Birdseye
by Mark Kurlansky From the publisher: While working as a fur trapper in Labrador, Canada, Clarence Birdseye encountered an age-old problem: bad food and an unappealing, unhealthy diet. However, he observed […]