Chew on This: Everything You Don't Want to Know about Fast Food [SIGNED COPY, FIRST PRINTING]

Schlosser, Eric, and Wilson, Charles

ISBN 10: 0618710310 / ISBN 13: 9780618710317

Published by Houghton Mifflin, Boston, MA, 2006

About this Item

Fine in very good dust jacket. SIGNED by Eric Schlosser on the half-title page (signature only). 1st edition, 1st printing, complete number line. Book is fine. Dust jacket is as new except for a few small scrapes. Schlosser is the National Magazine Award- and Sidney Hillman Foundation Award-winning author of 'Fast Food Nation' and 'Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety'. Rare signed. Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a clear protective plastic sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box.

Seller Inventory # Alibris.0007251

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Chew on This: Everything You Don't Want to Know about Fast Food [SIGNED COPY, FIRST PRINTING]
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, Boston, MA
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0618710310
• ISBN 13: 9780618710317
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

Kids love fast food. And the fast food industry definitely loves kids. It couldn’t survive without them. Did you know that the biggest toy company in the world is McDonald’s? It’s true. In fact, one out of every three toys given to a child in the United States each year is from a fast food restaurant.

Not only has fast food reached into the toy industry, it’s moving into our schools. One out of every five public schools in the United States now serves brand name fast food. But do kids know what they’re eating? Where do fast food hamburgers come from? And what makes those fries taste so good?

When Eric Schlosser’s best-selling book, Fast Food Nation, was published for adults in 2001, many called for his groundbreaking insight to be shared with young people. Now Schlosser, along with co-writer Charles Wilson, has investigated the subject further, uncovering new facts children need to know.

In Chew On This, they share with kids the fascinating and sometimes frightening truth about what lurks between those sesame seed buns, what a chicken ‘nugget’ really is, and how the fast food industry has been feeding off children for generations.

Featuring cover art by M. Wartella.

About the Authors

Charles Wilson grew up in West Virginia and has written for several newspapers and magazines, including the New York Times and the Washington Post. He has worked on the staff of The New Yorker and the New York Times Magazine and has rounded up beef cattle on horseback at his uncle’s ranch.

Eric Schlosser is a correspondent for the Atlantic. His work has also appeared in Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, the Nation, and The New Yorker. He has received a National Magazine Award and a Sidney Hillman Foundation Award for reporting. In 1998 Schlosser wrote an investigative piece on the fast food industry for Rolling Stone. What began as a two-part article for the magazine turned into the New York Times bestseller Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal. His other books include Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market and Chew on This: Everything You Don’t Want to Know About Fast Food, a children’s book he cowrote with Charles Wilson.