From Poison Sweets to Counterfeit Coffee - The Dark History of the Food Cheats.
Salmonella, toxins, additives, food scares. Have you ever wondered how our food
has become so untrustworthy? Have we ever been able to trust what we eat?
Via a fascinating mix of food politics, history and culinary detective work,
Bee Wilson uncovers the many methods by which swindlers have tampered with our
food throughout history. From the leaded wine of ancient Rome to the food piracy
of the twenty-first century we see the extraordinary ways food has been padded,
poisoned, spiked, coloured, substituted, faked and mislabled everywhere it has
been sold.
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