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Deadly Adulteration and Slow Poisoning Unmasked
Anonymous
The wine was doctored, the bread whitened with chalk, the tea stretched with spent leaves, and the sweets colored with actual poison. London, 1830: an anonymous insider blows the whistle on what really went into the pot and the bottle, then hands you the tests to catch it yourself, food by food, from spirits and beer to bread, meat, coffee and sugar. It reads like a thriller because it was one: people were dying of dinner. This is the book that helped start food safety. Read it and be glad, then quietly vigilant.
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51 chapters
- 1DEADLY ADULTERATION AND SLOW POISONING UNMASKED; OR, Disease and Death IN THE POT AND THE BOTTLE;
- 2THE AUTHOR’S ADDRESS TO THE READER.
- 3CONTENTS.
- 4INTRODUCTION.
- 5PART I. WINES AND SPIRITS.
- 6Section I.—The Adulteration of Wines and Spirits, and the Tricks of Wine and Spirit Dealers.
- 71. WINES.
- 82. SPIRITS.
- 9SECTION II. The Tests, or Methods of ascertaining the Good or Bad Qualities of Wines and Spirits.
- 10SECTION III. Beer and Ale.
- 11PART II.
- 12SECTION I. Bread and Flour.
- 13SECTION II. Meat and Fish.
- 14SECTION III. Tea, Coffee, Chocolate, and Sugar.
- 15TEA.
- 16COFFEE.
- 17CHOCOLATE.
- 18SUGAR.
+ 33 more. The full contents open with the book.
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