burger

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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The burger, long the All-American meal, is undergoing an identity crisis. From its shifting place in popular culture to efforts by investors such as Bill Gates to create 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. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic. Title Page Copyright Page Contents Chapter 1 Citizen Burger Chapter 2 Hamburger Contested “fathers” Innovators and capitalists Of what is a hamburger made? Chapter 3 Cow Burger The cow comes to North America The cow after the Civil War How to slaughter a cow Slaughter in the late twentieth century Hamburger hill Twenty-first-century colonialism and patriarchal tropes “Eat beef, the West wasn’t won on a salad”—bumper sticker seen near Midwest slaughtering facilities Chapter 4 Woman Burger The grinder The woman’s burger Mouths wide open: Woman as burger/woman eats burger Chapter 5 Creutzfeldt-Jakob Burger and Other Modernist Hamburger Identity Crises McLibel Ag-Gag Laws The Oprah trial The day of the hooved locust Modernity and its discontents Chapter 6 Veggie Burger Cranks The precursors of the veggie burger The religious meatless burger Second World War burger Further Seventh Day Adventist developments The 1960s and the counterculture burger Tempeh burgers The Boxed Mix Scientific innovations create a new veggie burger Chapter 7 Moon Shot Burger Impossible Foods Beyond Meat The clean meat burger Challenges to the development of the moon shot burger Afterword: Slippage Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Notes Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Afterword: Slippage Index