Annotations:
"Bee Wilson is a terrific writer who tells great stories, and her book could not be more timely given what's going on in the Chinese food industry today."--Marion Nestle, author of "Food Politics" and "What to Eat""No other book tells the history of food adulteration in this way. "Swindled" is ambitious in its coverage and extremely well written."--Andrew F. Smith, editor of the "Oxford Companion to American Food and Drink"
Publisher's Remarks:
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"
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