Swindled: The Dark History of Food Fraud, from Poisoned Candy to Counterfeit Coffee

[Bee Wilson] ✓ Swindled: The Dark History of Food Fraud, from Poisoned Candy to Counterfeit Coffee ↠ Download Online eBook or Kindle ePUB. Swindled: The Dark History of Food Fraud, from Poisoned Candy to Counterfeit Coffee The big breakthrough came in Victorian England when a scientist first put food under the microscope and found that much of what was sold as genuine coffee was anything but--and that you couldnt buy pure mustard in all of London. Bad food has a history. In fact, Wilson suggests, one of our best protections is simply to reeducate ourselves about the joys of food and cooking.. Wilson pays special attention to nineteenth- and twentieth-century America and England and their roles in developing bot

Author	:	Bee Wilson
Rating	:	4.36 (844 Votes)
Asin	:	0691138206
Format Type	:	paperback
Number of Pages	:	400 Pages
Publish Date	:	2013-11-03
Language	:	English

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Very worthwhile read The MonGoose Wow! As a biologist, dang I wish my curriculum included a couple of classes on this! It's a great read and full of fascinating information that had never dreamt of. This should be in high schools to let our kids know what they're up against when they try to "eat right". We're all fighting with out hands tied behind our backs. Get this book and stand-by for an eye-opening read. Very worth the time and cost.. Five Stars Happy with purchase.. A. Rigby said Five Stars. Just a great book to read.

The big breakthrough came in Victorian England when a scientist first put food under the microscope and found that much of what was sold as "genuine coffee" was anything but--and that you couldn't buy pure mustard in all of London. Bad food has a history. In fact, Wilson suggests, one of our best protections is simply to reeducate ourselves about the joys of food and cooking.. Wilson pays special attention to nineteenth- and twentieth-century America and England and their roles in developing both industrial-scale food adulteration and the scientific ability to combat it. Swindled gives a panoramic view of this history, from the leaded wine of the ancient Romans to today's food frauds--such as fake organics and the scandal of Chinese babies being fed bogus milk powder. In the hands of people and corporations who have prized profits above the healt

Wilson follows the economic, cultural and political threads skillfully, reporting on developments as recent as the China baby formula scandal. Columnist and food writer Wilson takes readers to the beginning of the 19th century to document the history of food adulteration--at heart "two very simple principles: poisoning and cheating." concentrating on Britain and the U.S. From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. . (other countries, especially France, navigated food supply industrialization with wiser government policy), Wilson finds the first food crusader in Frederick Accum, a German immigrant who