Pure Adulteration: Cheating on Nature in the Age of Manufactured Food

by Benjamin R. Cohen

Book Overview

Benjamin R. Cohen uses the pure food crusades at the turn of the twentieth century to provide a captivating window onto the origins of manufactured foods in the United States.

In the latter nineteenth century, extraordinary changes in food and agriculture gave rise to new tensions in the ways people understood, obtained, trusted, and ate their food. This was the Era of Adulteration, and its concerns have carried forward to today: How...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226816745
• ISBN13: 9780226816746
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"