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GIANTS
    187
“to an end”:
Quoted in Cheng,
Musings of a Chinese Gourmet,
p. 147.
    187
“bread or a potato”:
C. E. Francatelli,
A Plain Cookery Book for the Working Classes
(London, 1977), p. 16.
    188
eat with mustard:
Ibid., pp. 44-45.
    188
“for your supper”:
Ibid., p. 22.
    189
in patent foods:
J. M. Strang, “Caveat Emptor: Food Adulteration in Nineteenth-Century England,”
Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery,
1986:
The Cooking Medium: Proceedings
(London, 1987), pp. 129-33.
    189
in the kingdom:
Ibid., pp. 13-19, 31-32, 89.
    192
launched the “Green Revolution”:
L. Burbank,
An Architect of Nature
(London, 1939), pp. 1, 5, 27, 32, 34, 41; F. W. Clampett,
Luther Burbank,
“Our Good Infidel” (New York, 1926), pp. 21-22; K. Pandora, in
American National Biography.
    193
“bread from air”:
McNeil,
Something New Under the Sun,
p. 24.
    193
battery breed:
Levenstein,
Revolution at the Table,
p. 109.
    193
ten million chicks:
W. H. Wilson and A. J. Banks,
The Chicken and the Egg
(New York, 1955), p. 10.
    193
“bloody stumps”:
B. MacDonald,
The Egg and I
(Bath, 1946), pp. 65, 115.
    193
feather coat:
Wilson and Banks,
Chicken and the Egg,
p. 38.
    194
“governed by Nature”:
C. Wilson, in F. H. Hinsley, ed.,
New Cambridge Modern History,
xi (Cambridge, 1976), 55.
    195
“managing them”:
R. Scola,
Feeding the Victorian City: The Food Supply of Manchester, 1770-1870
(Manchester, 1992), pp. 159-62.
    195
“of common things”:
H. V. Morton,
A Stranger in Spain
(London, 1983), p. 130.
    195
marketplaces and neighborhoods:
J. Burnett,
Plenty and Want: A Social History of Diet in England from 1815 to the Present Day
(London, 1966), p. 35.
    197
mass production of biscuits:
Goody,
Cooking, Cuisine and Class,
pp. 156-57.
    197
“biscuit tin”:
T. A. B. Corley,
Quaker Enterprise in Biscuits: Huntley and Palmers of Reading, 1822-1972
(London, 1972), pp. 52-55, 93-95.
    198
cocoa butter:
Coe,
True History of Chocolate,
p. 243.
    199
only $20,000:
S. F. Hinkle,
Hershey
(New York, 1964), pp. 8-15.
    199
earn much less:
J. G. Brenner,
The Chocolate Wars: Inside the Secret World of Mars and Hershey
(London, 1999), pp. 9, 20, 42, 47-59.
    200
“home therein”:
J. Liebig,
Researches on the Chemistry of Food
(London, 1847), p. 2.
    200
“organized tissues”:
Ibid., p. 9.
    201
“putrefactive bacteria”:
Levenstein,
Revolution at the Table,
pp. 107-108.
    201
“smelling strong”:
Quoted in Toussaint-Samat,
History of Food,
p. 221.
    202
in 1930:
Levenstein,
Revolution at the Table,
p. 194.
    202
have disappeared:
R. Mandrou, “Les comsommations des villes françaises (viandes et boissons) au milieu du XIXe siècle,”
Annales,
xvi (1961), 740-47.
    203
twice a week:
R. S. Rowntree,
Poverty and Progress: A Second Social Survey of York
(London, 1941), pp. 172-97.
    204
“bread pudding”:
Steingarten,
Man Who Ate Everything,
p. 37.
    204
“coke and pot chips!”:
Levenstein,
Paradox of Plenty,
p. 197.
    205
“twenty-one dynasties”:
M. Davis,
Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World
(London, 2000), pp. 4-5, III.
    205
35 percent:
B. Fagan,
Floods, Famines and Emperors: El Niño and the Fate of Civilizations
(London, 2000), p. 214.
    205
thirty million in China:
Davis,
Late Victorian Holocausts,
p. 7.
    205
“human survival”:
Ibid., p. 12.
    205
“full of vultures”:
Ibid., p. 139.
    205
“stopped the rain”:
Ibid., p. 102.
    205
“eating India’s bread”:
Ibid., p. 26.
    205
availability of solutions:
Ibid., p. 146.
    206
using the implement:
Goody,
Cooking, Cuisine and Class,
pp. 60-61.
    206
millions of lives:
Davis,
Late Victorian Holocausts,
pp. 283, 286.
    206
monsoon failures:
L. R. Brown,
Seeds of Change: The Green Revolution and Development in the 1970s
(London, 1980), pp. xi, 6-7.
    206