Swindled
From Poison Sweets to Counterfeit Coffee - The Dark History of the Food Cheats
Seiten
2009
John Murray Publishers Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-7195-6776-6 (ISBN)
John Murray Publishers Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-7195-6776-6 (ISBN)
Bad food has a history. Swindled tells it.
Salmonella . . . toxins . . . additives . . . food scares . . . Have you ever wondered how our food has become so untrustworthy? Have we ever been able to trust what we eat?
Via a fascinating mix of food politics, history and culinary detective work, Bee Wilson uncovers the many methods by which swindlers have tampered with our food throughout history.
From the leaded wine of ancient Rome to the food piracy of the twenty-first century we see the extraordinary ways food has been padded, poisoned, spiked, coloured, substituted, faked and mislabelled everywhere it has been sold.
Bee Wilson reveals the strong historical currents which enable the fraudsters to flourish; the battle of the science of deception against the science of detection; the struggle to establish reliable standards. She also suggests some small ways in which we can all protect ourselves from swindles and learn to trust what we eat again.
Salmonella . . . toxins . . . additives . . . food scares . . . Have you ever wondered how our food has become so untrustworthy? Have we ever been able to trust what we eat?
Via a fascinating mix of food politics, history and culinary detective work, Bee Wilson uncovers the many methods by which swindlers have tampered with our food throughout history.
From the leaded wine of ancient Rome to the food piracy of the twenty-first century we see the extraordinary ways food has been padded, poisoned, spiked, coloured, substituted, faked and mislabelled everywhere it has been sold.
Bee Wilson reveals the strong historical currents which enable the fraudsters to flourish; the battle of the science of deception against the science of detection; the struggle to establish reliable standards. She also suggests some small ways in which we can all protect ourselves from swindles and learn to trust what we eat again.
Bee Wilson is an award-winning food writer and historian. For five years she was the food critic for the New Statesman; since 2003 she has written a weekly food column for the Sunday Telegraph (The Kitchen Thinker in Stella). For several years she was a research fellow at St Johns College, Cambridge, where she worked on the history of ideas. Her first book, The Hive, was published by John Murray in 2004. She is married with two children.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 8.1.2009 |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 131 x 197 mm |
| Gewicht | 389 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Essen / Trinken |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7195-6776-9 / 0719567769 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7195-6776-6 / 9780719567766 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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