Kosher - Lytton, Timothy D

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Résumé :
In an era of anxiety about the safety and industrialization of the food supply, kosher food?with dollars12 billion in sales?is big business. Timothy Lytton tells a story of successful private-sector regulation: how independent certification agencies rescued U.S. kosher supervision from corruption and made it a model of nongovernmental administration.

Biographie:
Timothy D. Lytton is Distinguished University Professor and Professor of Law at Georgia State University College of Law.

Timothy Lytton's wide-ranging account brings to bear a valuable new perspective on the kosher food industry. Harnessing the law and biochemistry, information technology and history--including, most memorably, the vinegar scandal of 1986--his lucid new book makes clear that keeping kosher has as much to do with the institutions of modern America as it does with age-old precepts.--Jenna Weissman Joselit, The George Washington University