[Online library] Candy: A Century of Panic and Pleasure
☆ Samira Kawash ☆
| #1060958 in Books | Faber Faber | 2013-10-15 | 2013-10-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.50 x1.30 x5.75l,1.24 | File Name: 0865477566 | 416 pages |
||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| A First Rate Social History|By PBM|Ms Kawash has done a tremendous amount of research, and her ability to effectively set a context for each era she explores is admirable. (Candy in the 1830s was almost exclusively the food stuffs of the rich. The average child could expect a special treat of sugared plums once a year at Xmas.) She's also adept at showing the give and take|From Publishers Weekly|In an extended work of thoroughgoing research without any strong polemic, Kamash (Dislocating the Color Line) traces the evolution of perceptions about candy in the American diet, from rare treat to sin to food. Since sugar, rather than f
For most Americans, candy is an uneasy pleasure, eaten with side helpings of guilt and worry. Yet candy accounts for only 6 percent of the added sugar in the American diet. And at least it's honest about what it is―a processed food, eaten for pleasure, with no particular nutritional benefit. So 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? How d...
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