...Douglas McCalla Abstract Based on account books, a frequently overlooked type of source, this is a study of grocery purchases made by sample customers from some country stores in Upper Canada (Ontario), in selected years between 1808 and 1861. Although literary sources suggest otherwise, no one...

... the twentieth century, the rise of wage labor and increased access to cash facilitated the shift from a diet comprised primarily of traditional food produced by Hopi farmers to one dependent on food purchased in grocery stores or acquired through food aid programs, contributing to high rates of obesity...

... Nutrition Assistance Program. Since 1964, public discourses about food stamps focus mainly on the legislation and those who carry it out or those who receive federal food assistance. But what about grocery store owners and retailers? Drawing on research from my book Food Power Politics , the essay takes up...

...-0-82035-3555-5 Nystrom packs his study with abundant information to support his premise that food became the medium through which Sicilians came to New Orleans, shaped the culture that they found, thrived as a people, and became American (2). What began as a 2010 examination of New Orleans grocery...

... and memory fully explains the heirloom food movement s recent success and that the movement is primarily driven by a reaction to the kind of collective forgetting of flavors, textures, and aromas, which the modern chain grocery represents (91). But in fact over the last several decades the produce sections...

..., a shopping trip becomes a field trip, yielding not only a cart full of groceries but, hopefully, deeper insights about the ecological, economic, and cultural significance of a vital food. This is a transferable skill, which applies as well to virtually any item in a supermarket. Instructors of courses...

...; giant processing factories like Iowa Beef Packers hanging like parasites on the edges of a few towns; mile after mile of corn and soybeans but little else; small towns that once had prosperous main streets, now mocked by empty storefronts and few cars parked in front; grocery stores stocked with foods...

..., were entwined with the fate of the area s agriculture. Kemp started in the grocery business, purveying nature s commodities to the people. He understood well the relationship between good crop seasons and grocery sales receipts. The family prospered during the 1890s, their general store doing a large...

... the Agricultural History Society 2024 In the produce section of every American chain grocery—from Maine to Florida, and down to the southwestern border—consumers will find a bounty of glossy, colorful Washington apples tempting their eyes. But this was not always the case. A century ago, apple eaters...

... Indicts Utah Sugar Officials," The Deseret News, 21 October 1920 48 "Sugar Company Again Indicted," The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 November 1920 49 Nibley to Smoot, 3 December 1920 50 " United States of America v. L. Cohen Grocery Company ," in Cases Argued and Decided in the Supreme Court...

... be a difficult teacher, and this was neither Vance s own experience nor his observation of those around him, people he served and worked alongside in jobs as a grocery store clerk and in a tile store (5). Vance s story begins with his grandparents, who married and left Jackson for Middletown when they were just...

.... Those letters also reveal that there was a scarcity of farm laborers and housekeepers during the war. In the summer of 1865 Bernhard moved his family to St. Louis, Missouri, in order to establish a wholesale grocery store. He died of an intestinal disorder in 1866. Maria returned to Germany in 1869...

... 10.5 percent of American households before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic). Today, SNAP provides direct assistance in the form of an amount deposited on an electronic debit card that can be used to purchase food at not only participating retail outlets, including convenience stores, grocery stores...

... through informal channels, some migrants made more money from selling beer, cigarettes, and grocery items to fellow workers at the farm. Oftentimes, soldiers on border patrol bought items or accepted sexual favors from undocumented migrants they interacted with at Grootplaas. As Bolt argues...

.... Through the voices of the innovative entrepreneurs who stepped outside the box, she suggests important changes forNebraska's rural economies. The vignettes run the gamut from a sheep dairy that turned to producing sheep-milk soap, to a community operated non-profit grocery store, to a farmers' seed...

... from the 1930s through the 1960s. Freeman places the organizing activities of the RMFU including a campaign against the exploitative practices of chain grocery stores astride its expanding menu of cooperatives, which grew to include property, health, life, and accident insurance. In the final three...

.... Miller. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. 288 pp., $35.00, paperback, ISBN 978-0-226-50137-6. Seeking a natural snack, a hungry shopper in a grocery store these days could fill up an unlabeled container with carob-coated almonds from a self-service bulk bin reminiscent of those that were...

... minsky New York University Abu Dhabi Global Sustainability: A History. by Jeremy l. Caradonna. new york: oxford university Press, 2014. 352 pp., $29.95, hardback, iSbn 978-0-19-937240-9. Sustainability is everywhere; one can find celebrity tips on sustainable living in the magazine rack at the grocery...

... building in their community and perpetuating inequities in grocery retailing that would challenge food justice work in East New York. The conclusion illustrates how the historical backdrops of each core chapter in Growing Gardens, Building Power are carefully connected to offer us a pathway forward...

... and acupuncture in alternative spaces such as Asian grocery stores, bookstores, travel agencies, and trading companies. Their experiences suggest that the configuration of Chinese medicine during the Cold War became partly refracted through diasporic experiences in Taiwan and Hong Kong, in addition to long...