A Rainbow Palate: How Chemical Dyes Changed the West's Relationship with Food - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226845531ISBN-10:226845532UPC:9780226845531Book Category:Science, Technology & Engineering, Business & EconomicsBook Subcategory:Chemistry, Food Science, IndustriesBook Topic:Chemistry & Biotechnology, Food IndustrySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.66 inchesWeight:0.8708Product ID:SCJJB764G5
A Rainbow Palate: How Chemical Dyes Changed the West's Relationship with Food
Shows how the widespread use of food dyes influenced understanding of food, science, and technology, as well as trust in science. We live in a world saturated by chemicals-our food, our clothes, and even our bodies play host to hundreds of synthetic chemicals that did not exist before the nineteenth century. By the 1900s, a wave of bright coal tar dyes had begun to transform the Western world....
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Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226845531ISBN-10:226845532UPC:9780226845531Book Category:Science, Technology & Engineering, Business & EconomicsBook Subcategory:Chemistry, Food Science, IndustriesBook Topic:Chemistry & Biotechnology, Food IndustrySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.66 inchesWeight:0.8708Product ID:SCJJB764G5
Carolyn Cobbold is a research fellow at the University of Cambridge, where she investigates the history of food and science. Her work has been published in Annals of Science, Osiris, Ambix, and Business Insurance, among others.
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