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Snacks : A Canadian Food History.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Winnipeg : University of Manitoba Press, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (266 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780887555275
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: SnacksDDC classification:
  • 338.4/76640971
LOC classification:
  • TX740 .T454 2017
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Old Dutch Potato Chips: A Canadian Company? -- Chapter 2: The Changing Chip Industry: Potato Growers and Federated Fine Foods -- Chapter 3: Corporate Mythology and Culinary Tourism: Hardbite and Covered Bridge Potato Chips -- Chapter 4: Cheezies: A No-Growth Model -- Chapter 5: The "Romance" of Chocolate: Paulins, Moirs, and Ganong -- Chapter 6: Candy Manufacturers: Surviving in an Anti-sugar World -- Chapter 7: Kids Bids Television: Advertising and Child Consumers -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Illustration credits.
Summary: Through extensive oral history and archival research, Thiessen uncovers the roots of our deep loyalties to different snack foods, what it means to be an independent snack food producer, and the often-quirky ways snacks have been created and marketed.
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Intro -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Old Dutch Potato Chips: A Canadian Company? -- Chapter 2: The Changing Chip Industry: Potato Growers and Federated Fine Foods -- Chapter 3: Corporate Mythology and Culinary Tourism: Hardbite and Covered Bridge Potato Chips -- Chapter 4: Cheezies: A No-Growth Model -- Chapter 5: The "Romance" of Chocolate: Paulins, Moirs, and Ganong -- Chapter 6: Candy Manufacturers: Surviving in an Anti-sugar World -- Chapter 7: Kids Bids Television: Advertising and Child Consumers -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Illustration credits.

Through extensive oral history and archival research, Thiessen uncovers the roots of our deep loyalties to different snack foods, what it means to be an independent snack food producer, and the often-quirky ways snacks have been created and marketed.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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