Food city: four centuries of food-making in New York

An invitation to Food City

Appetite. Dutch tastes ; English appetites ; Toward independence ; Food on parade

Bread. The dark prophecy of Adam Smith ; "The big ditch" ; War boom ; The age of incorporation ; Dirty bread ; Clean bread ; "Among great industries..." ; "Brother, can you spare a doughnut?" ; Exodus

Sugar. The headless helmsman ; Candy gets technical ; Bone char and other "nuisances" ; War and sugar ; King Harry ; Price war ; "A rotten job" ; Sweets in sour times ; War, rationing, and yogurt ; "Greatest manufacturing town on Earth" ; Chemical and other challenges to sugar ; Candy on the rocks ; Closing time ; Departures and arrivals

Drink. Swill milk ; The Brady bunch ; The lager craze ; Brewery princess ; The thirsty home front ; "City on a still" ; The battle for pasteurized milk ; Rolls-Royce coffee ; Heavenly coffee, earthly beer ; Goodbye to all that

Meat. Manhattan cattle drive ; Fooling Mrs. Eastman ; The militant ; The beef trust ; The sausage millionaires ; From depression to war ; Cellophane meat ; The specter of change ; Kosher from Indiana?

Conclusion: New Food City. Bread ; Sugar ; Drink ; Meat ; Those who leave, those who stay.