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Better than Homemade: Amazing Food That Changed the Way We Eat
Written by Carolyn Wyman
Narrated by Nancy Wu
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
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About this audiobook
Americans pride themselves in their knack for innovation, and nowhere has America's can-do attitude been more apparent than at the supermarket. Need a cheese that is virtually indestructible? Want to find a way to stretch a pound of hamburger into a hearty main course for a family of five? Hard pressed for time to throw together a home-cooked meal? In the early decades of the twentieth century, and from the world wars to the cold wars, food producers and everyday dreamers met these challenges with the same ingenuity and resourcefulness that launched the country to the moon and back, with groundbreaking packaging, new technologies, and improvements on Mother Nature. Better Than Homemade is food biographer Carolyn Wyman's freewheeling and entertaining cultural history of the innovative packaged foods that changed the way we eat. With dozens of archival ads and original product shots of Hamburger Helper, Kraft Macaroni and Cheese, Minute Rice, Coffee-mate, Green Giant Canned Peas, Lipton Cup-a-Soup, Pillsbury Crescent Rolls-and many more revolutionary products-Better Than Homemade highlights the fascinating stories behind the food inventions; the histories behind the brands and icons that have become synonymous with them; the jingles that have made them such a large part of our popular culture; and the recipes that have tutored generations of homemakers and comfort food master chefs.
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5The nation is not good and the content is super boring
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Fun and interesting, but definitely one to get from the library. Flits through the history of 46 different processed foods, all of which are still in production. Officially they're divided into five categories (chapters), but the chapter names are pretty meaningless because everything fits in all five. I ended up with lots of fun new trivia for parties, and it only took about 30 minutes to read the whole thing, but that is all the substance to it. Appropriately enough, for the subject matter!