Food—A Cultural Culinary History Podcast – The Great Courses Daily

Food—A Cultural Culinary History Podcast – The Great Courses Daily


Big Business and the Homogenization of Food

October 02, 2017

In today's episode we're going into the underbelly of food production. We'll investigate the process by which late 19th-century food production became a vast industry. And we'll see how technological developments such as freezing, canning, and pasteurization gave large companies increasing amounts of control over food production.