Supermarket USA: Food and Power in the Cold War Farms Race

This cultural history examines the global rise of American-style supermarkets during the Cold War era and how they shaped the way we eat today.

Supermarkets were invented in the United States, and from the 1940s on they made their way around the world, often explicitly to carry American-style economic culture with them. This innovative history tells us how supermarkets were used as anticommunist weapons during the Cold War, and how their proliferation has shaped our current food system.

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