Swindled : the dark history of food fraud, from poisoned candy to counterfeit coffee /

From the Publisher: Bad food has a history. Swindled tells it. Through a fascinating mixture of cultural and scientific history, food politics, and culinary detective work, Bee Wilson uncovers the many ways swindlers have cheapened, falsified, and even poisoned our food throughout history. In the ha...

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Dades bibliogràfiques
Autor principal: Wilson, Bee (Autor)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Idioma:anglès
Publicat: Princeton : Princeton University Press [2008]
Accés en línia:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv10h9d77
Taula de continguts:
  • German ham and English pickles
  • Jug of wine, a loaf of bread
  • Government mustard
  • Pink margarine and pure ketchup
  • Mock goslings and pear-nanas
  • Basmati rice and baby milk
  • Epilogue: Adulteration in the twenty-first century.