Bee Wilson is the author of The Hive: The Story of the Honeybee and Us. She writes a weekly food column for London's Sunday Telegraph and is a former food critic for the New Statesman. She has been named Food Journalist of the Year by the Guild of Food Writers and Food Writer of the Year by BBC Radio 4.
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.
發表於2024-12-23
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真是令人大開眼界,第一次知道,原來“不得在食物中添加不適宜人類食用的肉類”,不是指變質肉或者注水肉、病死畜肉之類的,居然指的是“人肉”(〃>皿<)!!!說起來,“沒有買賣就沒有殺害”的那句話,在這裏倒可以改成更為應景的,——“沒有買賣就沒有食品造假”。 話說,...
評分真是令人大開眼界,第一次知道,原來“不得在食物中添加不適宜人類食用的肉類”,不是指變質肉或者注水肉、病死畜肉之類的,居然指的是“人肉”(〃>皿<)!!!說起來,“沒有買賣就沒有殺害”的那句話,在這裏倒可以改成更為應景的,——“沒有買賣就沒有食品造假”。 話說,...
評分 評分我國的人權報告總是首先強調生存權,或者說,就是以吃飽肚子為最大的人權。此話當然不假。最近的XX花革命,是個極佳的反例,顯示齣人民覺得沒吃飽飯,會做齣什麼樣的反應。就這方麵而言,我國吃不飽肚子的人已經很少,當然是一大成績。但人嘛,飽暖以後不一定思淫欲,至少也想...
圖書標籤: 曆史 food History Food_Security 飲食 食品史 閑書 科普
very informative, a delightful reading
評分其實隻讀瞭大半而已……實例很多
評分其實隻讀瞭大半而已……實例很多
評分其實隻讀瞭大半而已……實例很多
評分其實隻讀瞭大半而已……實例很多
Swindled 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載