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Kawash, Samira, 1963-
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Candy -- Social aspects.
Candy -- History.
Candy industry -- History.
Junk food.
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Kawash, Samira, 1963-
Candy -- Social aspects.
Candy -- History.
Candy industry -- History.
Junk food.
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Candy : a century of panic and pleasure / Samira Kawash.
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Kawash, Samira, 1963-
Faber & Faber, Inc., an affiliate of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013.
Call #:
664
.153
K22c
Subjects
Candy -- Social aspects.
Candy -- History.
Candy industry -- History.
Junk food.
ISBN:
9780865477568 (hc.)
0865477566 (hc.)
Edition:
First edition.
Description:
viii, 402 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colored) ; 22 cm
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-381) and index.
Contents:
Evil or just misunderstood? -- The machine candy revolution -- Fake sweets and fake food -- Demon candy, demon rum -- Becoming food -- In the kitchen -- A nourishing lunch -- Fattening -- A fighting food -- Sugar free -- Cavities -- Trick or treat? -- Junk-food junkies -- Candification -- In defense of candy.
Summary:
"Candy -- a processed food, eaten for pleasure, with no particular nutritional benefit. Why is candy considered especially harmful, when it's not so different from the other processed foods, from sports bars to fruit snacks, that line supermarket shelves? Samira Kawash tells the fascinating story of how candy evolved from a luxury good to a cheap, everyday snack. After candy making was revolutionized in the early decades of mass production, it was celebrated as a new kind of food for energy and enjoyment. Riding the rise in snacking and exploiting early nutritional science, candy was the first of the panoply of "junk foods" that would take over the American diet in the decades after the Second World War -- convenient and pleasurable, for eating anytime or all the time. And yet, food reformers and moral crusaders have always attacked candy, blaming it for poisoning, alcoholism, sexual depravity and fatal disease. These charges have been disproven and forgotten, but the mistrust of candy they produced has never diminished. The anxiety and confusion that most Americans have about their diets today is a legacy of the tumultuous story of candy, the most loved and loathed of processed foods"--Provided by publisher.
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