Fast Food and Junk Food [2 volumes]: An Encyclopedia of What We Love to Eat by Andrew F. Smith [0313393931, Format: EPUB]

• Title: Fast Food and Junk Food [2 volumes]: An Encyclopedia of What We Love to Eat
• Autor: Andrew F. Smith
• Pages: 813
• Publisher (Publication Date): Greenwood 2011-12-02
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0313393931
• Download File Format: EPUB

In the last half century, junk food and fast food have come to play an extremely important role in American economic, historical, cultural, and social life. Today, they have a major influence on what Americans eat—and how healthy we are (or aren’t). Fast Food and Junk Food: An Encyclopedia of What We Love to Eat tells the intriguing, fun, and incredible stories behind the successes of these commercial food products and documents the numerous health-related, environmental, cultural, and politico-economic issues associated with them.

With more than 700 alphabetically arranged entries, this two-volume encyclopedia contains enough listings to allow readers to research a wide range of fascinating topics. The author treats the massive amount of subject material within this reference title in a fair and balanced manner. A secondary focus of this encyclopedia is to chart the spread of some American fast food chains and commercially produced junk foods internationally.