A Geography of Digestion

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ISBN: 9780520285798

Biotechnology and the Kellogg Cereal Enterprise

Nicholas Bauch

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English

University of California Press
25 October 2016

History of the Americas; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; Food & society; Food manufacturing & related industries

Series: California Studies in Food and Culture

A Geography of Digestion is a highly original exploration of the legacy of the Kellogg Company, one of America’s most enduring and storied food enterprises. In the late nineteenth century, company founder John H. Kellogg was experimenting with state-of-the-art advances in nutritional and medical science at his Battle Creek Sanitarium. Believing that good health depended on digesting the right foods in the right way, Kellogg thought that proper digestion could not happen without improved technologies, including innovations in food-processing machinery, urban sewer infrastructure, and agricultural production that changed the way Americans consumed and assimilated food. Asking his readers to think about mapping the processes and locations of digestion, Nicholas Bauch moves outward from the stomach to the sanitarium and through the landscape, clarifying the relationship between food, body, and environment at a crucial moment in the emergence of American health food sensibilities.

By: Nicholas Bauch
Imprint: University of California Press
Country of Publication: United States
Volume: 62
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 499g
ISBN: 9780520285798
ISBN 10: 0520285794
Series: California Studies in Food and Culture
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 25 October 2016
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Nicholas Bauch is Assistant Professor of Geohumanities in the Department of Geography and Environmental Sustainability at the University of Oklahoma.

Reviews for A Geography of Digestion: Biotechnology and the Kellogg Cereal Enterprise

An imaginative contribution to food studies . . . it presents new questions for historians who are bold enough to stomach them. * Winterthur Portfolio * Taking a step back to consider the bigger picture-restoring historical depth and geographic breadth to ideas about eating badly-lets us see how certain interests have converged to make salty/sugary snacks not just strategic staples for households that cannot access fresh produce, but cherished parts of the cultural iconography. Nicholas Bauch does exactly this in his fascinating A Geography of Digestion: Biotechnology and the Kellogg Cereal Enterprise. * PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review *