Algae have a long history of use as foods and for the production of food ingredients. There is also increasing interest in their exploitation as sources of bioactive compounds for use in functional foods and nutraceuticals. Functional ingredients from algae for foods and nutraceuticals reviews key topics in these areas, encompassing both macroalgae (seaweeds) and microalgae.After a chapter …
Secret Formula: The Inside Story of How Coca-Cola Became the Best-Known Brand in the World
Secret Formula follows the colorful characters who turned a relic from the patent medicine era into a company worth $80 billion. Award-winning reporter Frederick Allen’s engaging account begins with Asa Candler, a nineteenth-century pharmacist in Atlanta who secured the rights to the original Coca-Cola formula and then struggled to get the cocaine out of the recipe. …
Few things are as important as the food we eat. Conversations in Food Studies demonstrates the value of interdisciplinary research through the cross-pollination of disciplinary, epistemological, and methodological perspectives. Widely diverse essays, ranging from the meaning of milk, to the bring-your-own wine movement, to urban household waste, are the product of collaborating teams of interdisciplinary authors. Readers are …
“Citizen Coke demostrate[s] a complete lack of understanding about . . . the Coca-Cola system―past and present.” ―Ted Ryan, the Coca-Cola Company How did Coca-Cola build a global empire by selling a low-price concoction of mostly sugar, water, and caffeine? The easy answer is advertising, but the real formula to Coke’s success was its strategy, from the start, …
The Top 25 Restaurant KPIs – 2016 Extended Edition report compiles the most popular 25 KPIs used by global restaurant chains throughout 2009 and 2015. One of the most important benefits that this report brings is an international perspective on the most popular Restaurant KPIs. They provide quantifiable measurement of the main components that lead to a successful …
Note-by-Note Cooking is a landmark in the annals of gastronomy, liberating cooks from the constraints of traditional ingredients and methods through the use of pure molecular compounds. 1-Octen-3-ol, which has a scent of wild mushrooms; limonene, a colorless liquid hydrocarbon that has the smell of citrus; sotolon, whose fragrance at high concentrations resembles curry and at low concentrations, …
Agricultural Statistics is published each year to meet the diverse need for a reliable reference book on agricultural production, supplies, consumption, facilities, costs, and returns. Its tables of annual data cover a wide variety of facts in forms suited to most common use.Statistics presented in many of the tables represent actual counts of the items covered. Most of …
Best In Class Franchises – Food-Service Franchises is an effort to pick the “best” franchises from among over 500 food-service franchise systems. While picking the “best” of anything is subjective in the final determination, every effort has been made to employ rigorous metrics whenever possible. All of the critical variables have been properly assessed. The final selection is …
Have you noticed that ordinary human beings often turn into extremely impolite and rude characters once they step inside a restaurant? They can become extraordinarily messy, demanding, cheap – don’t want to tip, and yes, they can even become very creative, wanting to substitute everything on the menu! Does this sound familiar? We feel …
High-Hanging Fruit: Build Something Great by Going Where No One Else Will
Grabbing the low-hanging fruit is no longer acceptable. ZICO Coconut Water founder Mark Rampolla argues that when you choose to reach higher, you can build an incredible business, be profitable, and maybe even change the world. In 2004, Mark Rampolla was successful by most standards. There was just one problem: He wasn’t inspired in his job and believed …