Publisher’s Information: http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/catalog/titledetail.cfm?titleNumber=681944
This is the “Main Site” from the book’s publishers.

Complete Overview in a “press release kit,” including interesting facts from the publisher: http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/booksellers/press_release/schlosser/

Ÿ         Quoted Book Description from the Publisher:
“Description: Are we what we eat? To a degree both engrossing and alarming, the story of fast food is the story of postwar America. Though created by a handful of mavericks, the fast food industry has triggered the homogenization of our society. Fast food has hastened the mulling of our landscape, widened the chasm between rich and poor, fueled an epidemic of obesity, and propelled the juggernaut of American cultural imperialism abroad. That's a lengthy list of charges, but Eric Schlosser makes them stick with an artful mix of first-rate reportage, wry wit, and careful reasoning. Schlosser's myth-sh attering survey stretches from the California subdivisions where the business was born to the industrial corridor along the New Jersey Turnpike where many of fast food's flavors are concocted. He hangs out with the teenagers who make the restaurants run and communes with those unlucky enough to hold America's most dangerous job -- meatpacker. He travels to Las Vegas for a giddily surreal franchisers' convention where Mikhail Gorbachev delivers the keynote address. He even ventures to England and Germany to clock the rate at which those countries are becoming fast food nations. Along the way, Schlosser unearths a trove of fascinating, unsettling truths -- from the unholy alliance between fast food and Hollywood to the seismic changes the industry has wrought in food production, popular culture, and even real estate. He also uncovers the fast food chains' efforts to reel in the youngest, most susceptible consumers even while they hone their institutionalized exploitation of teenagers and minorities. Schlosser then turns a critical eye toward the hot topic of globalization -- a phenomenon launched by fast food. FAST FOOD NATION is a groundbreaking work of investigation and cultural history that may change the way America thinks about the way it eats.” (accessed Nov. 10, 2005 from:  http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/catalog/titledetail.cfm?titleNumber=681944)

Ÿ         About the Author (as quoted directly from the publisher’s press release kit) :
“Eric Schlosser has been investigating the fast food industry for years. In 1998, his two-part article on the subject in Rolling Stone generated more mail than any other story the magazine had run in years. Schlosser has interviewed slaughterhouse workers; cattle ranchers; potato farmers; fast food employees, founders, and franchisees; and families who have lost a loved one to food poisoning. From his extensive research and travels for this book, he has unearthed a wealth of little-known, often unsettling truths about the fast food industry.

“In addition to writing for Rolling Stone, Schlosser has contributed to The New Yorker and has been a correspondent for the Atlantic Monthly since 1996. He won a National Magazine Award for ‘Reefer Madness’ and ‘Marijuana and the Law’ and has received a Sidney Hillman Foundation Award for reporting. His work has been nominated for several other National Magazine Awards and for the Loeb Award for business journalism” (Houghton Mifflin, 2003). http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/booksellers/press_release/schlosser/#author

Ÿ         Publisher’s Author/Illustrator Bio:
“Award-winning journalist Eric Schlosser is a correspondent for the Atlantic Monthly. His first book, Fast Food Nation, has been on the New York Times bestseller list for over a year (hardcover and paperback combined) and has appeared on the bestseller lists of the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Boston Globe, the Washington Post, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly, among others. Schlosser has appeared on 60 Minutes, CNN, CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News, FOX News, The O’Reilly Factor, and Extra!, and has been interviewed on NPR and for Entertainment Weekly, USA Today, and the New York Times. He is currently at work on a book about the American prison system” (Houghton Mifflin, 2003). http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/catalog/authordetail.cfm?authorID=4629

Ÿ         Fast Food Nation’s Awards Received to Date:
2002 Book Sense Award Finalist
2002 Sidney Hillman Award Finalist

Other Fast Food Nation Study Guides

Ÿ         Dr. Weisheit  -- IL State University  tp://www.ilstu.edu/depts/cjs/fastfoodnationstudy.htm  and http://www.ilstu.edu/~raweish/cjs102/fastfoodnationstudy.htm

Ÿ         From Todd Kerstetter's history class at Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX
http://enterprise.is.tcu.edu/~tkerstetter/10613/schlosserguide1.htm
and http://enterprise.is.tcu.edu/~tkerstetter/10613/schlosserguide2.htm

Ÿ         Study Guides for a Comparative Studies Class:  http://personal.monm.edu/jkessler/study-guide-intro-3.htm and  http://personal.monm.edu/jkessler/Reading-Study-FFNation-1.htm and   http://personal.monm.edu/jkessler/Reading-Study-FFNation-2.htm

Selected Book Reviews:

Ÿ         Publisher’s quick picks: http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/catalog/titledetail.cfm?textType=reviews&titleNumber=681944

Ÿ         Strong list of resources at:  http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/food/schlosse.htm#ours

List of More Reviews  Easily Accessed from:
http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/food/schlosse.htm#ours

·         Acterra

·         Anarcho

·         ArtVoice

·         Bay Weekly

·         Berliner Zeitung (German)

·         BetterBizBooks.com

·         BookPage

·         Bookreporter.com

·         Books n Bytes

·         Brothers Judd

·         By the Way

·         Center for Consumer Freedom

·         changeX (German)

·         Christian Science Monitor

·         The Colgate Maroon-News

·         Common Sentience

·         Creative Loafing

·         Curled Up with a Good Book

·         DeutschlandRadio (German)

·         Devotay

·         DivaTribe

·         Edmonton Sun

·         Education Review

·         ehgloo

·         Falter (German)

·         Freitag (German)

·         frictionmagazine

·         Grist

·         The Guardian

·         The Healing Arts

·         A Healthy Me !

·         Houston Chronicle

·         In These Times

·         The Independent Weekly

·         junge Welt (German)

·         The Korea Times

·         A.M.Kuchling

·         Large Print Reviews

·         London Review of Books

·         Lost at Sea

·         Lucy's Books

·         The Manitoban

·         MERGINET

·         Moscow Food Co-op

·         National Post

·         New Trier Times

·         The New York Times Book Review

·         The Onion

·         Open Harvest

·         The Oven

·         pif

·         The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

·         Pop Matters

·         PopPolitics.com

·         The Portland Mercury

·         Real Magazine

·         Reason

·         Rural Migration News

·         Salon

·         San Francisco Chronicle

·         sBMJ

·         The Seeker

·         Slate

·         Smokebox

·         Socialist Action

·         Solstice

·         Mark Stosberg

·         St. Petersburg Times

·         Stuttgarter Zeitung (German)

·         The Tech

·         The Texas Observer

·         Times Literary Supplement

·         USA Today

·         VegFamily

·         Vegetarians in Paradise

·         Vegeterianteen.com

·         The Washington Post

·         World Link

·         Less Credible, But Interesting!
http://www.portlandmercury.com/2002-01-17/books.html

Essays:

Ÿ         See our website over 50 Infotrac resources - these must be linked from campus though: http://www.roch.edu/org/ctl/ffn_links.htm

Ÿ         From Mindfully.org http://www.mindfully.org/Food/Fast-Food-Nation.htm#1

Excerpts -- A great idea for teachers who want to include just a part of the common book in their class!

Ÿ         http://www.fsbassociates.com/hmco/fastfoodnation.htm (about the book, author, and how to order)

Ÿ         See this like to excerpts on “Why the Fries Taste Good” from The Guardian (it was also in The Atlantic Monthly).

Ÿ         From the introduction provided by the publishers:  http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/catalog/titledetail.cfm?textType=excerpt&titleNumber=681944

Links to Teaching Ideas (soon posted on: http://www.roch.edu/org/ctl/ffn_resources.htm)

Ÿ         From Rutgers’s College: http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~wp/courses/101/link_o_mat/schlosser.html

Ÿ         Assignments associated with FFN from Rutger’s College Writing Program http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~wp/teachers/101/sample_assignments/sa_schlosser.html

Ÿ         This was also the common text for Westfield State College, here is their brief teaching guide:  http://www.wsc.ma.edu/facultycenter/teachFFN.pdf

Ÿ         Our ESL RCTC Common Book study guide: http://www.roch.edu/org/ctl/ffn_elsguide.htm

Interviews with Eric Schlosser

Photo from:  Jim Scherer/ Houghton Mifflin
(accessed from: http://www.nytimes.com/books/01/01/21/specials/schlosser.html

Ÿ         The New York Times Interview is found at:
http://www.nytimes.com/books/01/01/21/specials/schlosser.html
An interview by Bill Goldstein, books editor of The New York Times on the Web, January 18, 2001. There was an online interview (43 minutes).

Ÿ         The Atlantic:  http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/interviews/ba2000-12-14.htm

Ÿ         An interesting interview with Katharine Mieszkowski for Salon.com http://dir.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/02/08/schlosser_interview/index.html

Ÿ         Another Interview from the Atlantic Unbound can be found at: http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/interviews/ba2000-12-14.htm

Other Related Links

from http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/food/schlosse.htm#links

·         Publicity page at http://www.fsbassociates.com/hmco/fastfoodnation.htm

·         Edited extracts from The Guardian at http://books.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,4166689-103425,00.html

·         Feature at CNN.com http://www.cnn.com/2001/FOOD/news/01/16/fast.food.nation/

·         Article in The Independent http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=60274

·         Article in LA Weekly http://www.laweekly.com/ink/01/16/books-ehrenreich.shtml

·         Article in The Los Angeles Times

·         The Truth about Fast Food Nation, from the National Restaurant Association at http://www.restaurant.org/pressroom/fast_food_nation.cfm

·         Riemann Verlag publicity material (German) http://www.pressdepartment.de/Pages/co/sum/sum_SchlosserFastFood.html

·         Published on Tuesday, June 4, 2002 in the lndependent/UK “Fast Food Nation: An Appetite for Litigation US Lawyer John Banzhaf Was the First to Sue the Tobacco Companies in the mid-Sixties. Now He Wants to Prosecute the Junk-Food Industry for Making Americans Obese” by Andrew Gumbel http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/0604-01.htm

Ÿ         http://robwalker.net/html_docs/fnation.html -- reprinted from the January 21, 2001, issue of The New York Times Book Review.

Ÿ         http://personal.monm.edu/jkessler/Com-soc-Spr03-syll.htm posts several related articles for this Comparative Studies Class including:

Obesity Giving Adult Illnesses to Kids
Tobacco Wins Set Table for Fast-Food Suits
McDonald's to Trim Harmful Fats in its French Fries

More Cattle Beefing Up On Lowly Grass
19 Million Pounds of Meat Recalled
Salmonella Survivor
Hog Lots' Reek Has Neighbors Squealing

Ÿ         It was also a Common Book at http://www.oswego.edu/~kay/368food

Ÿ         “The World is not for Sale”  Farmers fight back world wide! http://www.versobooks.com/books/ab/b-titles/bove_world_sale.shtml

Ÿ         Time for some biased irony? http://www.mcspotlight.org/

Ÿ         Interesting Timeline of McDonald’s http://wemweb.com/chr66a/sbr66_museum/sbmcdonalds_history.html

Publisher’s Press Kit -- Best bet for quick information!

http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/booksellers/press_release/schlosser/