Primär industri

The restaurant industry is one of the few places in America where workers from lower-class backgrounds can rise to positions of power and prestige. Yet with over 4 million cooks …

SCALING YOUR BUSINESS IS ALL ABOUT MINDSET AND CREATING A MEMORABLE EXPERIENCE FOR THE CUSTOMER. WHAT KIND OF MEMORABLE EXPERIENCE? WELL, THAT’S UP TO YOU.Tony DiSilvestro is the …

In a lively account of the American tuna industry over the past century, celebrated food writer and scholar Andrew F. Smith relates how tuna went from being sold primarily as a …

In this groundbreaking book Andrew Sluyter demonstrates for the first time that Africans played significant creative roles in establishing open-range cattle ranching in the …

In the blizzard of attention around the virtues of local food production, food writers and activists place environmental protection, animal welfare, and saving small farms at the …

In Challenging Social Inequality, an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars and development workers explores the causes, consequences, and contemporary reactions to …

The once arid valleys and isolated coastal plains of California are today the center of fruit production in the United States. Steven Stoll explains how a class of capitalist …

An exploration of the rise of the crop strain that came to dominate the American tobacco industry and its toll on the Southern landscape that produced it Drew A. Swanson has …

A Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestsellerRon Shaich, founder and former CEO of Panera Bread, shares the lessons he learned from a lifetime of asking what really matters and …

Agriculture in the United States has changed dramatically in the last two hundred years. Economic transformation marked by the expansion of the industrial economy and big business …