Breakfast Cereal
a global history
$27.33
- Hardcover
144 pages
- Release Date
30 June 2023
Summary
Rise and Shine: A History of Breakfast Cereals
Simple, healthy, and comforting, breakfast cereals are a perennially popular way to start the day around the world. They have a long, distinguished, and surprising history - around 10,000 years ago, with the advent of agriculture, people began breaking their fast with porridges made from wheat, rice, corn, and other grains. It was only in the second half of the nineteenth century, however, in the United States, that a series of entrepre…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781789146950 |
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| ISBN-10: | 178914695X |
| Series: | Edible |
| Author: | Kathryn Cornell Dolan |
| Publisher: | Reaktion Books |
| Imprint: | Reaktion Books |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 144 |
| Release Date: | 30 June 2023 |
| Weight: | 322g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 120mm |
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Critics Review
“An entertaining journey from the earliest accounts of pottages and porridges to the contemporary craze for breakfast bars, this is a must read.”
Breakfast Cereal will reward readers with relatable stories and familiar images. It is worthy of a place at the Edible Series table and is the ideal starting point for your collection of the same: one down, 89 to go. * Culinary Historians of Canada, ‘Digestible Bits and Bites” *Human beings have been starting the day right for thousands of years … Now the fascinating stories behind the bowlfuls we serve up each day are revealed in Breakfast Cereal: A Global History. – Bill Gibb * People’s Friend *An entertaining journey from the earliest accounts of pottages and porridges to the contemporary craze for breakfast bars, this is a must read. * Etta M. Madden, Clif and Gail Smart Professor of English, Missouri State University *
About The Author
Kathryn Cornell Dolan
Kathryn Cornell Dolan is an associate professor of English and technical communication at the Missouri University of Science and Technology. Her books include Cattle Country.
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