food industry and trade

Examines the techological advances in commercial food production in the last fifty years and the various problems and questions that have accompanied them.

Examines the food in our grocery stores, where it comes from, who makes them, food additives, and garbage and its disposal.

Describes how producing and packaging different foods affect the environment and people.

Explores the role throughout history of occupations related to food, including bakers and millers, brewers, grocers, dairy operators, waiters, winemakers, and others.

Explores how cooking changes the way food looks and tastes, and how food scientists make packaged foods healthier.

A collection of essays that provides varying perspective on issues regarding the global food crisis, debating if global market capitalism is the cause or not, the effects of the demand for biofuels, the prospect of biotechnology, and solutions.

Describes, in simple text and photographs, the jobs of the various people who work in a grocery store.

Profiles more than twenty careers in the food industry, such as bakers, cooks, meatcutters, and restaurant managers, describing each one's duties, education and training requirements, work environment, earnings, and outlook.

Explains why food is important, where it comes from, and how it gets to homes; looks at how people waste food; and suggests ways for reducing and recycling food waste.

Explains where various foods originate from, how food is grown, and brought to supermarkets and other stores, in simple text with illustrations.