Richard W. Hartel

Series of short essays about modern methods of food production, manufacture, and distribution, with forays into the science and history of same.Hartel is a bit more enthusiastic about the safety and benefits of high-volume food processing/production than might be warranted. In one essay he makes what seem to me to be excessive claims about how our food is safer than it ever has been in the past. He avoids discussing butchering or meat processing and mainly sticks to discussions about the production of candies and snacks, methods for preserving freshness, and so on. I learned some interesting information, but for me it was only barely worth slogging through the cutesy writing style.… (mais)