Squeezed: What You Don't Know About Orange Juice (Yale Agrarian Studies Series)

284 Pages·2009·0.82 MB·English

by  Alissa Hamilton

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Squeezed
What You Don’t Know About Orange Juice
ALISSA HAMILTON
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Hamilton,Alissa.
Squeezed:what you don’t know about orange juice / Alissa
Hamilton.
p. cm—(Yale agrarian studies series)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
isbn978-0-300-12471-2(hardcover:alk.paper)
1. Orange juice industry—Florida—History. 2. Orange juice—
Florida—History. I. Title. II. Title:What you don’t know
about orange juice. III. Series:Yale agrarian studies.
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For my mother
Her spirit is in this
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Contents
Preface xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction xvii
Abbreviations xxviii
Part I—The Growth ofFlorida’s Orange Juice Industry
one The Seeds ofFlorida’s Sunshine Tree 3
two The Twentieth-Century Squeeze 11
three The Power ofPromotion 25
viii Contents
Part II—Developing Orange Juice Standards ofIdentity
four Introducing the FDA Standard ofIdentity 31
five Capturing the Interest ofthe
Orange Juice Consumer 37
six Regulating Knowledge:
The Case ofPasteurized Orange Juice 50
seven Regulating Misleading Orange Juice Labeling 62
eight Regulating Content 73
nine Regulating the Essence ofOrange Juice 86
Part III—Florida’s Orange Juice Industry Post-1960
ten Processed Orange Juice Hits Florida 107
eleven NFC Orange Juice Pours into the Nation 126
twelve The Orange Juice Wars 135
thirteen Fabricating Fresh 152
Contents ix
fourteen Moving Beyond the
Standard ofIdentity 173
fifteen Pleasing Mrs.Smith 183
Part IV—Orange Juice in the Twenty-First Century
sixteen Where To? 189
seventeen Orange Juice Speaks Volumes 198
eighteen The Right Fight 204
Chronology 211
Notes 215
Index 233
Photographs follow page 104