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

By: Series: Heartland foodwaysPublisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2017]Description: xi, 252 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780252082597 (pbk. : alk. paper) :
  • 0252082591 :
  • 9780252041082 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Baking powder warsDDC classification:
  • 338.4/766468 23
LOC classification:
  • HD9330.B23 U525 2017
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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.
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Book Learning Library Adult Non-Fiction Adult Services Area 338.4 Civ (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Checked out 04/28/2026 78731000550351

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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