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2024-04-28
Swindled 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載
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評分說實話,我看到這本書,第一感覺是這是不是某些反動五毛勢力試圖用國外的食物造假實例來告訴我們天下烏鴉一般黑,不要認為我們身在神州的人運氣太差,更不要對我們親愛的zf心懷不滿。帶著陰謀論的懷疑看完,我還是有點被說服瞭,認命吧:食物造假古已有之,而且還將繼續存在,...
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評分其實隻讀瞭大半而已……實例很多
評分大傢對鉛的迷戀匪夷所思,看完心髒病也要嚇齣來瞭
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