Raising steaks : the life and times of American beef / Betty Fussell.
Raising steaks : the life and times of American beef / Betty Fussell.
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Publisher
Orlando : Harcourt, c2008.
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N636.21309/6
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Language
English
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Physical content
402 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
The cowboy and the machine -- Beefy boys -- Breaking the wild -- Playing cowboy -- The new range wars -- Circling the wagons -- Buffalo commons -- Greening beef -- Good breeding -- The smell of Greeley -- Slaughterhouse blues -- Riding point for the industry -- Mad cows and ethanol -- Beef : it's wh...
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Publisher
Orlando : Harcourt, c2008.
Edition
1st ed.
Place of Publication
Florida
Date Published
c2008.
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Summary
"When we bite into a steak's charred crust and pink interior, we bite into contradictions that have branded our national identity from the start. We taste the colliding fantasies of British pastoralists and Spanish ranchers that erupted in land wars between a wet-weather East and a desert West. We savor the ideas of wilderness and progress that cla...
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Raising steaks : the life and times of American beef / Betty Fussell.
Portion of title
Life and times of American beef.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [374]-383) and index.
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Date Copyright
c2008.
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N636.21309/6
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74VMjDN3Gmdg
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VMjDN3Gmdg
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ISBN
0151012024
9780151012022
DDC
636.2130973
MMS ID
991000992149702626
