Title:
The secret financial life of food : from commodities markets to supermarkets
Arts and traditions of the table: perspectives on culinary history
Author:
Newman, Kara
ISBN:
9780231156707
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
New York : Columbia University Press, c2013.
Physical Description:
x, 194 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Series:
Arts and traditions of the table: perspectives on culinary history
Contents:
How does commodities trading work? -- The spice route -- The commodity that built a nation: corn futures -- Great grains -- Butter and egg men -- The mochaccino market: coffee, sugar, and cocoa -- Cattle call -- This little piggy made a market: the rise and fall of pork bellies -- When money grows on trees: produce futures -- Super soybeans -- The future of food futures? Contracts to consider.
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