- Description
- 1 online resource.
- Series Statement
- Heartland foodways
- Uniform Title
- Baking powder wars (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Baking powder wars (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Source of Description (note)
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.
- 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.
- LCCN
- 2017014066
- OCLC
- ssj0001812182
- Author
Civitello, Linda.
- Title
Baking powder wars [electronic resource] : the cutthroat food fight that revolutionized cooking / Linda Civitello.
- Imprint
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2017]
- Series
Heartland foodways
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- Note
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.
- Connect to:
- Other Form:
Print version: Civitello, Linda, author. Baking powder wars Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2017] 9780252041082 (DLC) 2016055808