Field Reporter

Field Reporter
Author: United States Department of State. Office of Public Services
Publisher:
Total Pages: 506
Release: 1952
Genre: Technical assistance
ISBN:

The American Way of Eating

The American Way of Eating
Author: Tracie McMillan
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2012-02-21
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1439171955

A journalist traces her 2009 immersion into the national food system to explore how working-class Americans can afford to eat as they should, describing how she worked as a farm laborer, Wal-Mart grocery clerk, and Applebee's expediter while living within the means of each job.

Bet the Farm

Bet the Farm
Author: Beth Hoffman
Publisher: Island Press
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2021-10-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 164283159X

"Eloquent and detailed...It's hard to have hope, but the organized observations and plans of Hoffman and people like her give me some. Read her book -- and listen." -- Jane Smiley, The Washington Post In her late 40s, Beth Hoffman decided to upend her comfortable life as a professor and journalist to move to her husband's family ranch in Iowa--all for the dream of becoming a farmer. There was just one problem: money. Half of America's two million farms made less than $300 in 2019, and many struggle just to stay afloat. Bet the Farm chronicles this struggle through Beth's eyes. She must contend with her father-in-law, who is reluctant to hand over control of the land. Growing oats is good for the environment but ends up being very bad for the wallet. And finding somewhere, in the midst of COVID-19, to slaughter grass finished beef is a nightmare. If Beth can't make it, how can farmers who confront racism, lack access to land, or don't have other jobs to fall back on hack it? Bet the Farm is a first-hand account of the perils of farming today and a personal exploration of more just and sustainable ways of producing food.

As Seen on TV

As Seen on TV
Author: Karal Ann Marling
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 346
Release: 1996-03-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0674735293

America in the 1950s: the world was not so much a stage as a setpiece for TV, the new national phenomenon. It was a time when how things looked--and how we looked--mattered, a decade of design that comes to vibrant life in As Seen on TV. From the painting-by-numbers fad to the public fascination with the First Lady's apparel to the television sensation of Elvis Presley to the sculptural refinement of the automobile, Marling explores what Americans saw and what they looked for with a gaze newly trained by TV. A study in style, in material culture, in art history at eye level, this book shows us as never before those artful everyday objects that stood for American life in the 1950s, as seen on TV.

Economic Library List

Economic Library List
Author: United States. Bureau of Agricultural Economics. Library
Publisher:
Total Pages: 702
Release: 1939
Genre: Agriculture
ISBN:

A series of lists to be compiled from time to time which are designed to be less comprehensive than those issued in the series Agricultural economics bibliography. cf. p.1. of no. 1.

The Progressive Grocer

The Progressive Grocer
Author: Carl William Dipman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1360
Release: 1961
Genre: Grocery trade
ISBN:

Vols. for 1979- include annual report of the grocery industry.