Newman The Secret Financial Life of Food

From Commodities Markets to Supermarkets
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-231-52734-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 127 mm x 203 mm

Reihe: Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Newman, Kara

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Primärer Sektor Agrarökonomie, Ernährungswirtschaft
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Finanzsektor & Finanzdienstleistungen Börse, Rohstoffe

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Buy Breakfast
1. How Does Commodities Trading Work?
2. The Spice Route
3. The Commodity That Built a Nation: Corn Futures
4. Great Grains
5. Butter-and-Egg Men
6. The Mochaccino Market: Coffee, Sugar, and Cocoa
7. Cattle Call
8. This Little Piggy Made a Market: The Rise and Fall of Pork Bellies
9. When Money Grows on Trees: Produce Futures
10. Super Soybeans
11. The Future of Food Futures? Contracts to Consider
Epilogue
Notes
Index

Leseproben

Read the chapter, "Cattle Call" (to view in full screen, click on icon in bottom right-hand corner)

Über Autor(innen)

Kara Newman is spirits editor for Wine Enthusiast magazine and the author of two cocktail books, Cocktails for a Crowd and Spice & Ice. She is the former vice president of strategic research at Thomson Reuters and a former board member of the Culinary Historians of New York. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Saveur, and CFO Magazine.