Burger
by Carol J. Adams
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Pub Date 8 Mar 2018 | Archive Date 12 Mar 2018
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Description
The burger, long the All-American meal, is undergoing an identity crisis. From its shifting place in popular culture to the efforts, by investors such as Bill Gates, to seek to find the non-animal burger that can feed the world, the burger’s identity has become as malleable as that patty of protein itself, before it is thrown on a grill. Carol Adams’s Burger is a fast-paced and eclectic exploration of the history, business, cultural dynamics and gender politics of the ordinary hamburger.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781501329463 |
| PRICE | US$14.95 (USD) |
Featured Reviews
Roman C, Reviewer
This series seems to be self-consciously launched out of Barthes' Mythologies, each one offering up a riff on a common, often pedestrian, mundane, and over-looked object - here the burger.
Siting this somewhere between an essay, a piece of journalism, and a cultural history, Adams is a witty commentator and manages to pack in a huge amount of material, some expected (the history of McDonalds, for example), some weirdly, wonderfully unpredictable: burgers and feminism, burgers and pornography, as a er... taster.
Throughout, this is droll and sharp ('as the hamburger business grew, so did the size of the hamburger. Soon their names seemed to be recalling the way men discuss their erections: The Thick Burger, The Whopper, The Big Mac, The Big Boy, The Chubby Boy') - and at around a hour/hour and a half, this is an ideal 'thought-piece' read for a commute.
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