Baking powder wars : the cutthroat food fight that revolutionized cooking / Linda Civitello.

Author
Civitello, Linda [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2017]
Description
xi, 252 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

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    Heartland foodways [More in this series]
    Summary note
    "First patented in 1856, baking powder sparked a classic American struggle for business supremacy. For nearly a century, brands battled to win loyal consumers for the new leavening miracle, transforming American commerce and advertising even as they touched off a chemical revolution in the world's kitchens. Linda Civitello chronicles the titanic struggle that reshaped America's diet and rewrote its recipes. Presidents and robber barons, bare-knuckle litigation and bold-faced bribery, competing formulas and ruthless pricing--Civitello shows how hundreds of companies sought market control, focusing on the big four of Rumford, Calumet, Clabber Girl, and the once-popular brand Royal. She also tells the war's untold stories, from Royal's claims that its competitors sold poison, to the Ku Klux Klan's campaign against Clabber Girl and its German Catholic owners. Exhaustively researched and rich with detail, Baking Powder Wars is the forgotten story of how a dawning industry raised Cain--and cakes, cookies, muffins, pancakes, donuts, and biscuits"--Amazon.com.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Introduction
    • The burden of bread: bread before baking powder
    • The liberation of cake: chemical independence, 1796
    • The rise of baking powder business: the Northeast, 1856-1876
    • The advertising war begins: corporate cookbooks, 1876-1888
    • The cream of tartar wars: battle royal, 1888-1899
    • The rise of baking powder business: the Midwest, 1880s-1890s
    • The pure food war: outlaws in Missouri, 1899-1906
    • The alum war and World War I: "what a fumin' about egg albumen," 1907-1920
    • The Federal Trade Commission wars: the final federal battle, 1920-1929
    • The price war: the fight for the national market, 1930-1950
    • Baking powder today: post-World War II to the twenty-first century.
    ISBN
    • 9780252041082 ((hardcover ; : alkaline paper))
    • 0252041089 ((hardcover ; : alkaline paper))
    • 9780252082597 ((paperback ; : alkaline paper))
    • 0252082591 ((paperback ; : alkaline paper))
    LCCN
    2016055808
    OCLC
    962256932
    Other standard number
    • 99976167733
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