Baking powder wars
Subtitle: the cutthroat food fight that revolutionized cooking
By: Linda Civitello
Series: Heartland foodways; Heartland foodways
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780252082597; 9780252041082
Subjects: Baking powder; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The burden of bread: bread before baking powder; title: The liberation of cake: chemical independence, 1796; title: The rise of baking powder business: the Northeast, 1856-1876; title: The advertising war begins: corporate cookbooks, 1876-1888; title: The cream of tartar wars: battle royal, 1888-1899; title: The rise of baking powder business: the Midwest, 1880s-1890s; title: The pure food war: outlaws in Missouri, 1899-1906; title: The alum war and World War I: "what a fumin' about egg albumen," 1907-1920; title: The Federal Trade Commission wars: the final federal battle, 1920-1929; title: The price war: the fight for the national market, 1930-1950; title: Baking powder today: post-World War II to the twenty-first century.