Tag: The Secret Financial Life of Food

April 1, 2014

Umami, Watchdogs, Blacklists, The Hockey Stick and More April Author Events

A variety of Columbia University Press will be traveling from coast to coast to talk about their books in April. Among them are Dean Starkman, who will be talking about his new book The Watchdog That Didn’t Bark: The Financial...

January 24, 2013

Buy Breakast — A Post by Kara Newman, author of "The Secret Financial Life of Food"

The following post is by Kara Newman, author of The Secret Financial Life of Food: From Commodities Markets to Supermarkets. The post was originally published on the blog A Life of Spice: Few people can claim to have had a...

November 30, 2012

Test Your Knowledge of Food Finances!

We conclude our week-long feature on The Secret Financial Life of Food: From Commodities Markets to Supermarkets, by Kara Newman, with a quiz that tests your knowledge of the finances food (Click here for the answers): 1. Where is the...

November 29, 2012

Kara Newman Interviewed by Zester Daily

Earlier this Fall, Kara Newman talked with Zester Daily about her new book The Secret Financial Life of Food: From Commodities Markets to Supermarkets. In the interview Newman explains commodities markets and futures trading and how it affects the price...

November 28, 2012

Trading Places and the Secret Financial Life of Food

It is hard not to consider the topic food commodities without thinking of Trading Places (see clip below), which Kara Newman references in her new book The Secret Financial Life of Food: From Commodities Markets to Supermarkets. In The Secret...

November 27, 2012

Kara Newman's 3 Predictions for the Future of Food-Based Futures

The following post is by Kara Newman, author of The Secret Financial Life of Food: From Commodities Markets to Supermarkets My new book, The Secret Financial Life of Food, focuses on the history of agricultural commodities, including the personalities and...

May 14, 2012

Kara Newman — Drink and Thrive

Kara Newman discusses her first experience pouring a drink as an intern in the early 1990s.