how business changed the look of what you eat Hisano, Ai creator author. text bibliography Print books. mau ©2019 2019 monographic eng

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327 p: 22 cm Visualizing Taste explores transformations in what Americans conceived as a "natural color" of food between the 1870s and 1970s. It analyzes the role of business in creating the modern world of the senses by focusing on the origins and development of the use of visual appeals, particularly color, as a key driver of demand in the food industry in the United States. By examining the development of color controlling technology, government regulation, and consumer expectations, Ai Hisano demonstrates that scientists, farmers, food processors, dye manufacturers, government officials, and intermediate suppliers co-created a "natural" color for food that was, in fact, a hybrid of nature and technology. Color management thus became a central and permanent part of food manufacturing and marketing strategies.-- Introduction: Capitalism of the senses: How food should look: food and modern visual culture -- The business of food coloring: synthetic dyes and standardization -- Color at home: from natural dyes to cake mixes -- The color of "nature": making oranges orange -- Creating a new ideal: a fight for a "natural" color -- Bright lights, big produce: the visuality of freshness in the grocery store -- Color wars: reimagining the natural -- Conclusion: Eye appeal is buy appeal. Ai Hisano. Includes bibliographical references and index. n-us--- Color of food Food industry and trade United States History Food engineers United States History TP370.9.C64 H57 2019 9780674983892 2019014145 MH/DLC 190415 20200601131245.0 20949707 eng