BOOKS

Trends in Food Science: History at Penn State
In 2000, in preparation for the building of a new, state-of-the-art Food Science Building at Pennsylvania State University, John Floros, Chair of the Dept. of Food Science, asked for volunteers to participate in writing a history of the department. Manfred Kroger, who retired in 1999 after 36 years on the faculty, volunteered to write the entire history. He spent five years on it, and this book is the result. It is more than just a history of the depa…