Fast Food Nation: What The All-American Meal is Doing to the World by Eric Schlosser (Paperback, 2002)

The story of fast food is to a large extent the story of post-war America. In a perverse way, it is also the story of Britain since the deregulation of our food and labour markets in the early 1980s. Schossler's account takes in the whole of this prototypically global industry.