The food industries of Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / edited by Derek J. Oddy and Alain Drouard.

Farnham, Surrey : Ashgate Publishibg, [2013]

xvii, 266 pages ; 24 cm

List of figures -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Preface and acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The origins and growth of industrial organization -- Pioneering spadework in the history of the German food industry during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries : beet sugar, wheat starch and health foods / Karl-Peter Ellerbrock and Hans-Jürgen Teuteberg -- Vinegar and sugar : the early history of factory-made jams, pickles and sauces in Britain / Peter J. Atkins -- Rural capitalism : the Société des caves de roquefort, from c.1840 to 1914 / Sylvie Vabre -- Modernizing the Mediterranean olive oil industry, 1850s-1930s / Ramon Ramon-Munoz -- Creating new foods -- The biggest chocolate factory in the world : the menier chocolate factory in Noisiel / Alain Drouard -- Czech chocolate is the best! : nationalism in the food industry in the Czech lands around the year 1900 / Martin Franc -- Margarine in competition with butter in Germany (1872-1933) : the example of Van den Bergh's margarine factory in Kleve / Sabine Merta -- The nutritional transformation of Danish pork, 1887-1960 / Tenna Jensen -- The rise of the frozen fish industry in Iceland and Norway : the case of fish fingers / Guðmundur Jonsson and Örn Jonsson -- The effect of food technology on consumption patterns -- Food labelling and packaging : the Dutch food industry : persuading and informing consumers, 1870-1950s / Adel P. den Hartog -- Promoting packaging and selling self-service : the rapid modernization of Swedish food retailing / Jenny Lee and Ulrika Torell -- Food preservation in flemish women's magazines, 1945-1960 / Anneke Geyzen -- The growth of bread consumption among Romanian peasants, 1950-1980 / Lucian Scrob -- From roast beef to chicken nuggets: how technology changed meat consumption in Britain in the twentieth century / Derek J. Oddy -- Commentary and summary -- Index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.