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Eat the city : a tale of the fishers, trappers, hunters, foragers, slaughterers, butchers, farmers, poultry minders, sugar refiners, cane cutters, beekeepers, winemakers, and brewers who built New York

Title
Eat the city : a tale of the fishers, trappers, hunters, foragers, slaughterers, butchers, farmers, poultry minders, sugar refiners, cane cutters, beekeepers, winemakers, and brewers who built New York / Robin Shulman.
Author
Shulman, Robin.
Publication
New York : Crown, ©2012.

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Description
335 pages : map; 22 cm
Summary
Traces the experiences of New Yorkers who grow and produce food in bustling city environments, placing urban food production in a context of hundreds of years of history to explain the changing abilities of cities to feed people.
Subject
  • 1900-1999
  • Food supply > New York (State) > New York > History
  • Food supply
  • Manners and customs
  • Lebensmittelversorgung
  • New York (N.Y.) > Social life and customs > 20th century
  • New York (State) > New York
  • New York, NY
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-335).
Contents
Introduction -- Honey -- Vegetables -- Meat -- Sugar -- Beer -- Fish -- Wine -- Epilogue.
ISBN
  • 9780307719058
  • 0307719057
  • 9780307719072
  • 0307719073
LCCN
  • 2012000333
  • 99953939886
OCLC
  • ocn778635500
  • 778635500
  • SCSB-1653637
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library