Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser
	List Price:   $14.95 Unit Price:   $11.96 You Save:   $2.99 (20%) ISBN-10:   0060838582 ISBN-13:   9780060838584 Publisher:   HarperCollins; Harper Perennial Series:   P. S. Ser. Category:   Young Adults Pub. Date:   July 2005 Pages:   416 Format:   Paperback
Awards
1969  Nebula Awards  Nominee/Honoree  2006  Original Voices Award  Nominee/Honoree  2007  Book Sense Book of the Year  Winner!  2007  Alex Awards  Winner!  2007  Great Lakes Book Awards  Winner!
Subjects
CONVENIENCE FOODS FAST FOOD RESTAURANTS FOOD INDUSTRY AND TRADE
Description/Notes
Fast food has hastened the malling of our landscape, widened the chasm between rich and poor, fueled an epidemic of obesity, and propelled American cultural imperialism abroad. That's a lengthy list of charges, but Eric Schlosser makes them stick with an artful mix of first-rate reportage, wry wit, and careful reasoning. Schlosser's myth-shattering survey stretches from California's subdivisions, where the business was born, to the industrial corridor along the New Jersey Turnpike, where many of fast food's flavors are concocted. Along the way, he unearths a trove of fascinating, unsettling truths -- from the unholy alliance between fast food and Hollywood to the seismic changes the industry has wrought in food production, popular culture, and even real estate. To a degree both engrossing and alarming, the story of fast food is the story of postwar America. Schlosser, a National Magazine Award-winning journalist, charts the fast food industry's enormous impact on our health, landscape, economy, politics and culture as he transforms the way America thinks about what it eats. 10 photos.