The Great American Cereal Book: How Breakfast got its Crunch
By Marty Gitlin and Topher Ellis
Abrams Image. Hardcover. 368 pages. $19.95
Come breakfast time, my kitchen cabinet holds a limited, and boring, offering of ready-to-eat cereals; just some Kellogg’s Raisin Bran and a box of Honey-Nut Cheerios. In my mid-fifties, breakfast cereal no longer holds any importance in my life. To tell the truth, if I’m going to have cereal, I would much rather sit down with a bowl of Quaker Oatmeal and leave the cold, crunchy stuff for when I’m feeling especially lazy.
But, as The Great American Cereal Book: How Breakfast Got Its Crunch reminds me, once upon a time, in that galaxy far, far away of childhood, breakfast cereal was important. Very important. The Golden Age of comic books, as someone once observed, is eleven years old. That is, whatever it is we’re exposed...
By Marty Gitlin and Topher Ellis
Abrams Image. Hardcover. 368 pages. $19.95
Come breakfast time, my kitchen cabinet holds a limited, and boring, offering of ready-to-eat cereals; just some Kellogg’s Raisin Bran and a box of Honey-Nut Cheerios. In my mid-fifties, breakfast cereal no longer holds any importance in my life. To tell the truth, if I’m going to have cereal, I would much rather sit down with a bowl of Quaker Oatmeal and leave the cold, crunchy stuff for when I’m feeling especially lazy.
But, as The Great American Cereal Book: How Breakfast Got Its Crunch reminds me, once upon a time, in that galaxy far, far away of childhood, breakfast cereal was important. Very important. The Golden Age of comic books, as someone once observed, is eleven years old. That is, whatever it is we’re exposed...
- 2/23/2012
- by Paul Kupperberg
- Comicmix.com
T.C. Boyle’s novels persistently measure the distance between idealists’ visions and how far human nature keeps them from the mark. As such, his work is steeped in irony and hypocrisy, from John Harvey Kellogg’s quest for clean living through breakfast cereal (among other remedies) in Boyle’s 1993 breakthrough The Road To Wellville to California hippies bringing their communal naïveté to Alaska in 2003’s superb Drop City. So it follows that his unsparing assessment of human nature would bleed into the savagery of actual nature in When The Killing’s Done, a sprawling account of ...
- 2/17/2011
- avclub.com
Anthony Hopkins is the master cereal-maker and iffy health practitioner in Alan Parker's 1994 biopic. But was serving potty humour at the breakfast table really such a Grrrrreat idea?
Director: Alan Parker
Entertainment grade: E
History grade: C–
John Harvey Kellogg was the proprietor of a health farm in Battle Creek, Michigan, and the inventor of Kellogg's Corn Flakes.
Philosophy
John Harvey Kellogg (Anthony Hopkins) begins the film on an exercise machine, explaining to journalists his philosophy of health. It seems to revolve around vegetarianism, defecation, the avoidance of masturbation … and cornflakes. "The cornflake, sir, is just one of 75 of my creations for healthy living, among them peanut butter and the electric blanket," he says. Kellogg did invent an electric blanket and held an 1897 patent for a preparation of peanut butter, though other people also invented those things around the same time. As for the other obsessions: his vegetarianism wasn't...
Director: Alan Parker
Entertainment grade: E
History grade: C–
John Harvey Kellogg was the proprietor of a health farm in Battle Creek, Michigan, and the inventor of Kellogg's Corn Flakes.
Philosophy
John Harvey Kellogg (Anthony Hopkins) begins the film on an exercise machine, explaining to journalists his philosophy of health. It seems to revolve around vegetarianism, defecation, the avoidance of masturbation … and cornflakes. "The cornflake, sir, is just one of 75 of my creations for healthy living, among them peanut butter and the electric blanket," he says. Kellogg did invent an electric blanket and held an 1897 patent for a preparation of peanut butter, though other people also invented those things around the same time. As for the other obsessions: his vegetarianism wasn't...
- 7/29/2010
- by Alex von Tunzelmann
- The Guardian - Film News
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