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Publisher
Oxmoor House
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Grocery store-made home meal replacements are part of our busy lives. Pick up a fully cooked rotisserie chicken from the grocery store, and bring home a meal! This book provides recipes for tried-and true recipes for casseroles, lunches and dinners-- many of which can be ready in half-an-hour! Includes recipes for dozens of side dishes to complete your family's meal.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A narrative history of how American home cooking changed in the 1950s--from "anti-cooking" marketing to Julia Child. In this surprising history, Laura Shapiro recounts the prepackaged dreams that bombarded American kitchens during the fifties. Faced with convincing homemakers that foxhole food could make it in the dining room, the food industry put forth the marketing notion that cooking was hard; opening cans, on the other hand, wasn't. But women...
Author
Publisher
Ecco Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
A food industry insider blows the whistle on American food corporations, discussing how the board room decisions and slick marketing machines of restaurant chains and food packagers have spurred the obesity epidemic and created the nation's most serious health crisis.
Author
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
Did you know that if you're watching your waistline, a McDonald's Big Mac is better than a Five Guys Cheeseburger? Or that the health promise of the Cheesecake Factory's Grilled Chicken and Avocado Club is dubious? Or that when shopping for condiments, the real winner is Kraft mayo with olive oil instead of Hellman's “Real?”
Reading ingredient labels and scrutinizing descriptions on menus is hard work, but with side-by-side calorie and nutrition...