Food Chains:
Provisioning, Technology, and Science
November 2-4, 2006

A conference sponsored by the Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society Hagley Museum and Library

Thursday Nov. 2, Winterthur
Copeland Lecture Hall, Visitor Center
7:00-8:30 p.m. Evening Lecture
Ann Smart Martin, University of Wisconsin
Provisioning Early America: Or, Four Hundred Turkeys Just Passed the Door

Friday, Nov. 3, Hagley
Soda House Auditorium

9:30-10:15 Keynote address
Warren Belasco, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
How Much Depends on Dinner?

10:15-10:30 Break

10:30-12:30 Panel I: Global Chains
Jeffrey Pilcher, University of Minnesota
Tortillas Around the World: Creating Global Supply Chains for the Mexican Restaurant Industry
Richard Wilk, Indiana University
The Role of the Technologies of Mixing, Grading and Packaging in the Nineteenth-Century Colonial Food System
Kelly Feltault, American University
Trading Quality, Producing Value: Socionatural Commodity Networks in the Global Crabmeat Industry
Comment: Shane Hamilton, University of Georgia

12:30-2:00 Lunch

2:00-4:00 Panel II: Establishing Food Chains
Jenny Leigh Smith, Yale University
Empire of Ice Cream: How Life Became Sweeter in the Postwar Soviet Union
Andrew Godley and Bridget Williams, Centre for International Business History and Museum of English Rural Life
The Chicken, the Factory Farm, and the Supermarket: The Industrialisation of Poultry Farming in Britain, 1950-1980
Kasey Grier, Winterthur Library
Man's Best Friend: The Rise of the Dog Food Industry in the United States
Comment: Roger Horowitz, Hagley Museum and Library

4:00-6:00 Reception

6:00-8:00 Dinner

Saturday Nov. 4, Hagley
Soda House Auditorium

9:30-11:30 Panel III: Technology
Joe Anderson, University of West Georgia.
Lard to Lean: Making the Meat-Type Hog in Post-World War II America
Jonathan Rees, Colorado State University-Pueblo,br> The Table or the Railroad Car?: The Quest for Purity and the Development of the American Ice and Refrigeration Industries
Catherine Grandclement, Ecole des Mines de Paris
Wheeling Food Products Around the Store…and Away: The Invention of the Shopping Cart (1936-1950)
Comment: Philip Scranton, Rutgers University/Hagley Museum and Library

11:30-12:30 Lunch

12:30-2:30 Panel IV: Buying Food
Lisa Tolbert, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
The Aristocracy of the Market Basket: Self-Service Food Shopping in the New South
Patrick Patterson, University of California, San Diego
Making Markets Marxist? The East European Grocery Store from Rationing to Rationality to Rationalizations
Katherine Leonard Turner, University of Delaware
The Bakery, the Saloon, and the Quick Lunch: Ready to Eat Food in Working-Class Neighborhoods, 1880-1930
Comment: Tracey Deutsch, University of Minnesota