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Title: Swindled
Condition: New
Subtitle: From Poison Sweets to Counterfeit Coffee - The Dark History of the Food Cheats
Author: Bee Wilson
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0719567769
EAN: 9780719567766
ISBN: 9780719567766
Publisher: John Murray Publishers Ltd
Genre: Food & Drink
Topic: History
Release Date: 08/01/2009
Description:

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.

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