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A Geography of Digestion
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A Geography of Digestion is a highly original exploration of the legacy of the Kellogg Company, one of America’s most enduring and storied food enterprises. In the late nineteenth century, company ...
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25 October 2016

A Geography of Digestion is a highly original exploration of the legacy of the Kellogg Company, one of America’s most enduring and storied food enterprises. In the late nineteenth century, company founder John H. Kellogg was experimenting with state-of-the-art advances in nutritional and medical science at his Battle Creek Sanitarium. Believing that good health depended on digesting the right foods in the right way, Kellogg thought that proper digestion could not happen without improved technologies, including innovations in food-processing machinery, urban sewer infrastructure, and agricultural production that changed the way Americans consumed and assimilated food. Asking his readers to think about mapping the processes and locations of digestion, Nicholas Bauch moves outward from the stomach to the sanitarium and through the landscape, clarifying the relationship between food, body, and environment at a crucial moment in the emergence of American health food sensibilities.
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Pages: 240
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Series: California Studies in Food and Culture
Publication Date:
25 October 2016
ISBN: 9780520961180
Format: eBook
List of Illustrations
Introduction: Spatially Extending the Digestive System
1. The Battle Creek Sanitarium: A Place of Health
2. Scientific Eating: Kellogg’s Philosophy of the Modern Stomach
3. Flaked Cereal: The Moment of Invention
4. Extending the Digestive System into the Urban Landscape
5. The Systematization of Agriculture
6. Breakfast Cereal in the Twentieth Century
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Introduction: Spatially Extending the Digestive System
1. The Battle Creek Sanitarium: A Place of Health
2. Scientific Eating: Kellogg’s Philosophy of the Modern Stomach
3. Flaked Cereal: The Moment of Invention
4. Extending the Digestive System into the Urban Landscape
5. The Systematization of Agriculture
6. Breakfast Cereal in the Twentieth Century
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index