The Secret Financial Life of Food
From Commodities Markets to Supermarkets
(Sprache: Englisch)
Just as the Slow Food movement revolutionized the farmer¿s relationship to the table, The Secret Life of Financial Food reveals the economic pathways connecting food to consumer, unlocking the mysteries behind culinary trends, grocery pricing, and...
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Just as the Slow Food movement revolutionized the farmer¿s relationship to the table, The Secret Life of Financial Food reveals the economic pathways connecting food to consumer, unlocking the mysteries behind culinary trends, grocery pricing, and restaurant dining. Newman¿s lively and compact history travels back to the markets of ancient Rome and medieval Europe, where vendors first distinguished between ¿spot sales¿ and ¿sales for delivery.¿ She retraces Asia¿s famed spice routes and recounts the spice craze that prompted Christopher Columbus¿s journey to North America, and she links these developments to modern day India¿s bustling peppercorn market. Newman centers her history on corn and its transformation into a ubiquitous commodity, and she uses oats, wheat, and rye to recast America¿s westward expansion and the Industrial Revolution. She discusses the effects of such mega-corporations as Starbucks and McDonalds on futures markets, and she considers burgeoning markets, particularly ¿super soybeans,¿ which could scramble the landscape of food finance.
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Just as the Slow Food movement revolutionized the farmers relationship to the table, The Secret Life of Financial Food reveals the economic pathways connecting food to consumer, unlocking the mysteries behind culinary trends, grocery pricing, and restaurant dining. Newmans lively and compact history travels back to the markets of ancient Rome and medieval Europe, where vendors first distinguished between spot sales and sales for delivery. She retraces Asias famed spice routes and recounts the spice craze that prompted Christopher Columbuss journey to North America, and she links these developments to modern day Indias bustling peppercorn market. Newman centers her history on corn and its transformation into a ubiquitous commodity, and she uses oats, wheat, and rye to recast Americas westward expansion and the Industrial Revolution. She discusses the effects of such mega-corporations as Starbucks and McDonalds on futures markets, and she considers burgeoning markets, particularly super soybeans, which could scramble the landscape of food finance.
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AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Buy Breakfast 1. How Does Commodities Trading Work?2. The Spice Route 3. The Commodity That Built a Nation: Corn Futures4. Great Grains5. Butter-and-Egg Men6. The Mochaccino Market: Coffee, Sugar, and Cocoa7. Cattle Call8. This Little Piggy Made a Market: The Rise and Fall of Pork Bellies9. When Money Grows on Trees: Produce Futures10. Super Soybeans11. The Future of Food Futures? Contracts to ConsiderEpilogueNotesIndex
Autoren-Porträt von Kara Newman
Kara Newman is spirits editor for Wine Enthusiast magazine and the author of two cocktail books, Cocktails for a Crowd and Spice & Ice. She is the former vice president of strategic research at Thomson Reuters and a former board member of the Culinary Historians of New York. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Saveur, and CFO Magazine.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Kara Newman
- 2012, 208 Seiten, 10 Abbildungen, Maße: 14,2 x 21,1 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Columbia University Press
- ISBN-10: 0231156707
- ISBN-13: 9780231156707
- Erscheinungsdatum: 04.12.2012
Sprache:
Englisch
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The Secret Financial Life of Food has multiple levels of appeal. For example, it is of benefit to anyone that is involved in the food industry, including producers, users, the ultimate consumer and even professionals in the culinary arts. It also has appeal for those of us that are involved in the commodity futures industry, helping us within the industry to gain a better understanding of how the commodity futures markets have evolved. -- Alan Bush, Senior Financial Futures Analyst, Archer Financial Services, Inc.
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