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Roger Horowitz is a food historian and director of the Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society at the Hagley Museum and Library. His books include Putting Meat on the American Table: Taste, Technology, Transformation (2005).
Opere di Roger Horowitz
Kosher USA: How Coke Became Kosher and Other Tales of Modern Food (Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on… (2016) 49 copie
Negro and White, Unite and Fight!: A Social History of Industrial Unionism in Meatpacking, 1930-90 (1997) 17 copie
Meatpackers: An Oral History of Black Packinghouse Workers and Their Struggle for Racial and Economic Equality (1996) 12 copie
Boys and their Toys: Masculinity, Class and Technology in America (Hagley Perspectives on Business and Culture) (2001) 11 copie
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Kosher USA examines the struggle to transform Kosher certification in mid-twentieth century as food increasingly became an industrial product. It explains why certification (the process by which a particular food is verified OK for observant Jews to eat) passed from the hands of rabbis who knew the law but could not apply it to a factory, into the hands of specially trained chemists who are able to follow the chain of evidence to determine whether a permissible raw material emerges as an acceptable final product.
Mr. Horowitz is a skilled writer and patiently explains the intricacy of Jewish food law, highlighting the detailed knowledge needed when a tiny production detail instantly renders a food unfit for consumption by observant Jews thereby losing a company an entire consumer segment. He stresses the role that debate continues to play in Jewish legal formations of all kinds. (I remember twenty years ago a rabbi friend of mine served on a commission to determine if USDA humane slaughter rules should be adopted in place of traditional Jewish humane slaughter rules. More recently a Muslim friend served on a USDA panel on the same question.) Mr. Horowitz is sympathetic to the distress of observant mothers and their modern children when popular products like Coke and marshmallows fall on the wrong side of religious law.
This is a legalistic book and I found it very interesting to read as a story of the sacred and the profane.
I received a review copy of "Kosher USA: How Coke Became Kosher and Other Tales of Modern Food" by Roger Horowitz (Columbia University) through NetGalley.com.… (altro)