Jack Goody gives a detailed discussion about the different methods of preservation used by different cultures from around the world and the different methods they would have used such as ice, drying, pickling, or salting. Goody then describes the great British Biscuit Industry and how it led to the invention of steam machinery and machinery for stamping and cutting biscuits. This also improved the quality and productivity of the biscuits, lowered labor costs, and led to the development of Huntley and Palmers along with others to sell over 37 million lbs of biscuits a year.
Goody then talks about the perseveration of food such as canning and freezing and describes the developments of the mechanization of canned goods, and how transport of large quantity of industrial foods has impacted the world to this very day with the use of trains and ships. Retailing also played an important part of the development of the grocers and vertical integration which is still a key strategy in business today and helped development of franchising grocery branches all over the world.
Goody does this to show how industrialized agriculture and industrial cuisine have affected the whole world but specifically the third world and how they are now dependant on this industrial cuisine to survive. Oddly enough Goody does not talk much about Anglophone West Africa and how it is specifically affected. I found Goody discusses more of the history of industrial cuisine and industrialized agriculture and how it came about but strays away from talking about the negative effects of this “industrial decadence”.
Wednesday, February 7, 2007
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