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Empty Pleasures: The Story of Artificial Sweeteners from Saccharin to Splenda
Carolyn De La Peña
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Description for Empty Pleasures: The Story of Artificial Sweeteners from Saccharin to Splenda
Paperback. Empty Pleasures: The Story of Artificial Sweeteners from Saccharin to Splenda Num Pages: 279 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; KNDF; TBX; TDCT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 404.
Sugar substitutes have been a part of American life since saccharin was introduced at the 1893 World's Fair. In Empty Pleasures, the first history of artificial sweeteners in the United States, Carolyn de la Pena blends popular culture with business and women's history, examining the invention, production, marketing, regulation, and consumption of sugar substitutes such as saccharin, Sucaryl, NutraSweet, and Splenda. She describes how saccharin, an accidental laboratory by-product, was transformed from a perceived adulterant into a healthy ingredient. As food producers and pharmaceutical companies worked together to create diet products, savvy women's magazine writers and editors promoted artificially sweetened ... Read more
Sugar substitutes have been a part of American life since saccharin was introduced at the 1893 World's Fair. In Empty Pleasures, the first history of artificial sweeteners in the United States, Carolyn de la Pena blends popular culture with business and women's history, examining the invention, production, marketing, regulation, and consumption of sugar substitutes such as saccharin, Sucaryl, NutraSweet, and Splenda. She describes how saccharin, an accidental laboratory by-product, was transformed from a perceived adulterant into a healthy ingredient. As food producers and pharmaceutical companies worked together to create diet products, savvy women's magazine writers and editors promoted artificially sweetened ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9780807872741
SKU
V9780807872741
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Ref
99-15
About Carolyn De La Peña
Carolyn de la Pena is a professor of American studies at the University of California, Davis. She is author of The Body Electric: How Strange Machines Built the Modern American.
Reviews for Empty Pleasures: The Story of Artificial Sweeteners from Saccharin to Splenda
Empty Pleasures provides a fascinating window into the complex history of artificial sweeteners in the United States, blending business history with discussions about how these products actually worked within the lives of consumers. An in-depth, nuanced study.
Amy Farrell, author of Yours in Sisterhood: Ms. Magazine and the Promise of Popular Feminism |""Empty Pleasures, a rich and rewarding read, makes the ... Read more
Amy Farrell, author of Yours in Sisterhood: Ms. Magazine and the Promise of Popular Feminism |""Empty Pleasures, a rich and rewarding read, makes the ... Read more