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Swindled
Bee Wilson
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Description for Swindled
Paperback. Bad food has a history. Swindled tells it. Num Pages: 384 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTB; VF; WB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 128 x 27. Weight in Grams: 270.
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, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
John Murray Publishers Ltd
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719567766
SKU
V9780719567766
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99-10
About Bee Wilson
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. ... Read more
Reviews for Swindled
'Meticulously researched and fascinating to read, Swindled is guaranteed to give you food for thought'
Daily Express
'A wonderully written, thrilling rollercoaster of a book . . . A must-read: loaded with flavour, it is a satisfying rich stew of savoury details and meaty chunks of information - nourishment for the mind'
Sunday Telegraph
'Riveting . ... Read more
Daily Express
'A wonderully written, thrilling rollercoaster of a book . . . A must-read: loaded with flavour, it is a satisfying rich stew of savoury details and meaty chunks of information - nourishment for the mind'
Sunday Telegraph
'Riveting . ... Read more