Grocery: the buying and selling of food in America

Introduction: The invisible behemoth on Main Street

pt.1: How we got here

My father's grocery store Jones

How the A&P changed the western world

Growing up

The visionary Cleveland grocer and the one-stop shop

"Nea, I think I want to move to Cleveland

I think I want to work for these grocers"

How to save a locomotive that has jumped the rails

pt. II: How to think about food

She bought the fat-free half-and-half

Breakfast : the most dangerous meal of the day

No food is healthy

Shopping with my doctor

The nefarious practices of the modern-day grocer

Interlude: Checkout

pt. III: The center aisles

A few of the twenty thousand new products for your consideration

Better living through organic turmeric, ashwagandha extract, and hemp seed milk

A walk in the medicine cabinet

pt. IV: The perimeter

The farmer who can't find his animals

Thirty-two thousand pounds of carrots, every week

"Nobody knows how to cook

it's mind-boggling"

The cooking animal

Frozen

pt. V: Where we are headed

America's culinary heritage

The Cleveland Trust

Cathedral.