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Pandora's Lunchbox: How Processed Food Took Over the American Meal
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Melanie Warner
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Scribner (2013, Feb 26th).
Pages: 256
In the tradition of Fast Food Nation and The Omnivore’s Dilemma comes a fascinating and cutting-edge look at the scary truth about what really goes into our food. If a piece of individually wrapped cheese can retain its shape, color, and texture for years, what does it say about the food we eat and feed to our children? Former New York Times business reporter and mother Melanie Warner decided to explore that question when she observed the phenomenon of the indestructible cheese. She began an investigative journey that took her to research labs, university food science departments, and factories around the country. What she discovered provides a rare, eye-opening—and sometimes disturbing—account of what we’re really eating. more
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US Guys: The True and Twisted Mind of the American Man
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Charlie LeDuff
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books; Reprint edition (2008, Mar 25th).
Pages: 256
The New York Times's most intrepid itinerant takes the measure of American manhood on a road trip like no other Charlie LeDuff has made a career out of his extraordinary ability to capture the spirit of the people and places he profiles. US Guys is his odyssey in search of the truth behind the American man, from a jaded homicide detective in Detroit to a two-bit jockey at a racetrack in Miami to a pair of lovers at a gay rodeo. With audacity, humor, and no small amount of physical pain, he captures a broad diversity of voices as they wrestle with an America they love but increasingly fail to understand. more
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Fast-Forward Family: Home, Work, and Relationships in Middle-Class America
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Tamar Kremer-Sadlik
Format: Paperback
Publisher: University of California Press (2013, Mar 1st).
Pages: 320
Called "the most unusually voyeuristic anthropology study ever conducted" by the New York Times, this groundbreaking book provides an unprecedented glimpse into modern-day American families. In a study by the UCLA Sloan Center on Everyday Lives and Families, researchers tracked the daily lives of 32 dualworker middle class Los Angeles families between 2001 and 2004. The results are startling, and enlightening. Fast-Forward Family shines light on a variety of issues that face American families: the differing stress levels among parents; the problem of excessive clutter in the American home; the importance (and decline) of the family meal; the vanishing boundaries that once separated work and home life; and the challenges for parents as they try to reconcile ideals regarding what it means to be a good parent, a good worker, and a good spouse. more
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