Swindled: The Dark History of Food Fraud, from Poisoned Candy to Counterfeit Coffee
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 hands of people and co...
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| Zusammenfassung: | 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 hands of people and corporations who have prized profits above the health of consumers, food and drink have been tampered with in often horrifying ways--padded, diluted, contaminated, substituted, mislabeled, misnamed, or otherwise faked. 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. 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. As Swindled reveals, modern science has both helped and hindered food fraudsters--increasing the sophistication of scams but also the means to detect them. 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. Arguing that industrialization, laissez-faire politics, and globalization have all hurt the quality of food, but also that food swindlers have always been helped by consumer ignorance, Swindled ultimately calls for both governments and individuals to be more vigilant. In fact, Wilson suggests, one of our best protections is simply to reeducate ourselves about the joys of food and cooking |
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| spelling | Wilson, Bee 1974- Verfasser (DE-588)1059727226 aut Swindled The Dark History of Food Fraud, from Poisoned Candy to Counterfeit Coffee Bee Wilson Princeton, NJ Princeton University Press [2020] © 2009 1 online resource 53 halftones txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Aug 2020) 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 hands of people and corporations who have prized profits above the health of consumers, food and drink have been tampered with in often horrifying ways--padded, diluted, contaminated, substituted, mislabeled, misnamed, or otherwise faked. 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. 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. As Swindled reveals, modern science has both helped and hindered food fraudsters--increasing the sophistication of scams but also the means to detect them. 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. Arguing that industrialization, laissez-faire politics, and globalization have all hurt the quality of food, but also that food swindlers have always been helped by consumer ignorance, Swindled ultimately calls for both governments and individuals to be more vigilant. In fact, Wilson suggests, one of our best protections is simply to reeducate ourselves about the joys of food and cooking In English Ackermann, Rudolph;aspartame;ale conners;Banzhaf, John;biotechnology;Bloor, Richard;brown sugar;Cai Shouqiu;Carnation;Charlemagne Columella Dang, Tran Drouitt’s Institution East End Foods Ersatzmensch Felton Galen Interchicken Juvenal Miraculin Naderphobia Paracelsus cherry laurel colica Pictonum esters fluorimetry gas lighting glucose haemochromatosis honey institutional food junk food kipper crisps logwood oenology polariscope salicylic acid snoek thiamine SOCIAL SCIENCE / Agriculture & Food (see also POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Agriculture & Food Policy) bisacsh Food contamination History Food industry and trade History https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691214085 Verlag URL des Erstveröffentlichers Volltext |
| spellingShingle | Wilson, Bee 1974- Swindled The Dark History of Food Fraud, from Poisoned Candy to Counterfeit Coffee Ackermann, Rudolph;aspartame;ale conners;Banzhaf, John;biotechnology;Bloor, Richard;brown sugar;Cai Shouqiu;Carnation;Charlemagne Columella Dang, Tran Drouitt’s Institution East End Foods Ersatzmensch Felton Galen Interchicken Juvenal Miraculin Naderphobia Paracelsus cherry laurel colica Pictonum esters fluorimetry gas lighting glucose haemochromatosis honey institutional food junk food kipper crisps logwood oenology polariscope salicylic acid snoek thiamine SOCIAL SCIENCE / Agriculture & Food (see also POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Agriculture & Food Policy) bisacsh Food contamination History Food industry and trade History |
| title | Swindled The Dark History of Food Fraud, from Poisoned Candy to Counterfeit Coffee |
| title_auth | Swindled The Dark History of Food Fraud, from Poisoned Candy to Counterfeit Coffee |
| title_exact_search | Swindled The Dark History of Food Fraud, from Poisoned Candy to Counterfeit Coffee |
| title_exact_search_txtP | Swindled The Dark History of Food Fraud, from Poisoned Candy to Counterfeit Coffee |
| title_full | Swindled The Dark History of Food Fraud, from Poisoned Candy to Counterfeit Coffee Bee Wilson |
| title_fullStr | Swindled The Dark History of Food Fraud, from Poisoned Candy to Counterfeit Coffee Bee Wilson |
| title_full_unstemmed | Swindled The Dark History of Food Fraud, from Poisoned Candy to Counterfeit Coffee Bee Wilson |
| title_short | Swindled |
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| title_sub | The Dark History of Food Fraud, from Poisoned Candy to Counterfeit Coffee |
| topic | Ackermann, Rudolph;aspartame;ale conners;Banzhaf, John;biotechnology;Bloor, Richard;brown sugar;Cai Shouqiu;Carnation;Charlemagne Columella Dang, Tran Drouitt’s Institution East End Foods Ersatzmensch Felton Galen Interchicken Juvenal Miraculin Naderphobia Paracelsus cherry laurel colica Pictonum esters fluorimetry gas lighting glucose haemochromatosis honey institutional food junk food kipper crisps logwood oenology polariscope salicylic acid snoek thiamine SOCIAL SCIENCE / Agriculture & Food (see also POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Agriculture & Food Policy) bisacsh Food contamination History Food industry and trade History |
| topic_facet | Ackermann, Rudolph;aspartame;ale conners;Banzhaf, John;biotechnology;Bloor, Richard;brown sugar;Cai Shouqiu;Carnation;Charlemagne Columella Dang, Tran Drouitt’s Institution East End Foods Ersatzmensch Felton Galen Interchicken Juvenal Miraculin Naderphobia Paracelsus cherry laurel colica Pictonum esters fluorimetry gas lighting glucose haemochromatosis honey institutional food junk food kipper crisps logwood oenology polariscope salicylic acid snoek thiamine SOCIAL SCIENCE / Agriculture & Food (see also POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Agriculture & Food Policy) Food contamination History Food industry and trade History |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691214085 |
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