TY  - BOOK
AU  - Civitello,Linda
TI  - Baking powder wars: the cutthroat food fight that revolutionized cooking 
T2  - Heartland foodways
SN  - 9780252082597 (pbk. : alk. paper) :
AV  - HD9330.B23 U525 2017
U1  - 338.4/766468 23
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - Urbana
PB  - University of Illinois Press
KW  - Baking powder
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - COOKING / History
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - HISTORY / United States / 19th Century
KW  - HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
N1  - 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
ER  -