Food Economics

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    • The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World
    • By: Mark Pendergrast
    • Narrated by: Matthew Boston
    • Length: 16 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 08-14-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 86 ratings
    • Uncommon Grounds tells the story of coffee from its discovery on a hill in ancient Abyssinia to the advent of Starbucks. In this updated edition of the classic work, Mark Pendergrast reviews the dramatic changes in coffee culture over the past decade....

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    • The Secret Takeover of America's Food Business
    • By: Christopher Leonard
    • Narrated by: John Pruden
    • Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 04-01-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 207 ratings
    • How much do you know about the meat on your dinner plate....

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    • The Golden Arches in Black America
    • By: Marcia Chatelain
    • Narrated by: Machelle Williams
    • Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 01-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 105 ratings
    • From civil rights to Ferguson, Franchise reveals the untold history of how fast food became one of the greatest generators of black wealth in America....

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    • Why We Can't Stop Eating Food That Isn't Food
    • By: Chris van Tulleken
    • Narrated by: Chris van Tulleken, Dr. Xand van Tulleken
    • Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 06-27-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 468 ratings
    • The Omnivore's Dilemma meets Fast Food Nation from a global perspective in this game-changing look at the science, economics, and history of ultra-processed food and the industry's effect on our health and planet....

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    • A Hungry Economist Explains the World
    • By: Ha-Joon Chang
    • Narrated by: Homer Todiwala
    • Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 10-20-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • In Edible Economics, Chang makes challenging economic ideas more palatable by plating them alongside stories about food from around the world....

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    • Monsanto's Past and Our Food Future
    • By: Bartow J. Elmore
    • Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins
    • Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 10-12-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 132 ratings
    • This authoritative and eye-opening history examines how Monsanto came to have outsized influence over our food system....

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    • Food and Longing in an American City
    • By: Kim Foster
    • Narrated by: Sara Sheckells
    • Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 10-10-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Kim Foster peers behind the polished visions of perfectly curated dinners and charming families to reveal the complex reality when poverty and food intersect....

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    • The Untold Story of Food and Inequality in America
    • By: Priya Fielding-Singh PhD
    • Narrated by: Priya Fielding-Singh PhD, York Whitaker
    • Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 11-16-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 68 ratings
    • Packed with lyrical storytelling and groundbreaking research, as well as Fielding-Singh’s personal experiences with food as a biracial, South Asian American woman, How the Other Half Eats illuminates exactly how inequality starts on the dinner plate....

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    • By: Stephen Akintayo
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 5 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 11-18-24
    • Language: English
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    • It chronicles the journey of how man moved from food capture to food production, being producers themselves and not just consumers for varying ...

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    • How to Minimize Waste, Increase Efficiency, and Maximize Value and Profits with Less Work
    • By: Ben Hartman
    • Narrated by: Robert David Grant
    • Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 06-04-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 279 ratings
    • By explaining the lean system for identifying and eliminating waste and introducing efficiency in every aspect of the farm operation, The Lean Farm makes the case that small-scale farming can be an attractive career option for young people who are interested in growing food....

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    • Food, Free Will, and How the Food Giants Exploit Our Addictions
    • By: Michael Moss
    • Narrated by: Scott Brick
    • Length: 9 hrs
    • Release date: 03-02-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 581 ratings
    • From the author of Salt Sugar Fat comes a “gripping” (The Wall Street Journal) exposé of how the processed food industry exploits our evolutionary instincts, the emotions we associate with food, and legal loopholes in their pursuit of profit over public health....

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    • How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit
    • By: Barry Estabrook
    • Narrated by: Pete Larkin
    • Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 09-30-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 150 ratings
    • Supermarket produce sections bulging with a year-round supply of perfectly round, bright red-orange tomatoes have become all but a national birthright...

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    • A Culinary History of the Great Depression
    • By: Jane Ziegelman, Andrew Coe
    • Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
    • Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 12-20-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 81 ratings
    • The decade-long Great Depression, a period of shifts in the country's political and social landscape, forever changed the way America eats....

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    • Race, Class, and Food in the America South
    • By: Joseph C. Ewoodzie Jr.
    • Narrated by: Beresford Bennett
    • Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 10-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Getting Something to Eat in Jackson, a people-driven ethnography, portrays how race, particularly Blackness, is experienced and performed in different socioeconomic contexts in the contemporary urban American South....

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    • Money
    • By: iMinds
    • Narrated by: Emily Sophie Knapp
    • Length: 7 mins
    • Release date: 11-16-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 31 ratings
    • Learn about Food Security with iMinds Money's insightful fast knowledge series....

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    • Growing a Movement of Farmers, Fashion Activists, and Makers for a New Textile Economy
    • By: Rebecca Burgess
    • Narrated by: Tia Rider
    • Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 11-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 56 ratings
    • A new "farm-to-closet" vision for the clothes we wear - by a leader in the movement for local textile economies....

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    • Greed, Murder, Obsession, and an Arsonist in the Vineyards of California
    • By: Frances Dinkelspiel
    • Narrated by: Dina Pearlman
    • Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 05-10-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 178 ratings
    • Frances Dinkelspiel looks beneath the casually elegant veneer of California's wine regions to find the obsession, greed, and violence lying in wait....

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    • Goose Island, Anheuser-Busch, and How Craft Beer Became Big Business
    • By: Josh Noel
    • Narrated by: Charles Constant
    • Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 07-03-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 149 ratings
    • Goose Island opened as a family-owned Chicago brewpub in the late 1980s. John Hall and his son Greg brought European flavors to America. Then, on March 28, 2011, the Halls sold the brewery to Anheuser-Busch InBev, which forced the industry to reckon with craft beer's mainstream appeal....

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