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Candy : a century of panic and pleasure
—Kawash, Samira, 1963- author.
2013

Book

A lively cultural history that explains how candy became more like food and food more like candy.

Item Details

ISBN:

  • 9780865477568
  • 0865477566

Edition: First edition.

Description: viii, 402 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-381) and index.

Contents:

  • Evil or just misunderstood?
  • The machine candy revolution
  • Fake sweets and fake food
  • Demon candy, demon rum
  • Becoming food
  • In the kitchen
  • A nourishing lunch
  • Fattening
  • A fighting food
  • Sugar free
  • Cavities
  • Trick or treat?
  • Junk-food junkies
  • Candification
  • In defense of candy.

LCCN: 2013020053

Control Number: 955064

Publisher: New York : Faber and Faber, Inc., an affiliate of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013.
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