Artemas Ward (1848–1925), grocer and chronicler of the food trades
In 1874, he began a trade journal called The Philadelphia Grocer, from which he drew in compiling his short work The Grocer’s Hand-Book (1882). Decades later, he refashioned the Hand-Book into the monumental Grocer’s Encyclopedia (1911), an unequaled source of information—not completely outdated even today—on hundreds of food products, covering their lives from farm or plantation to retail shelf.
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