8. Food and the Industrial Revolution

Send us Fan Mail June 27, 2020 The Industrial Revolution is often said to be made of three parts: the steam engine, the Bessemer blast furnace, and the silicon wafer. However, underpinning these three technologies is a great wealth of modifications in the diet necessary to feed the worker. The rise of sugar as a cheap source of calories, the use of food additives to preserve and make food more palatable, the use of the chicken as a great filter to consume lots of waste produ...