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A Rainbow Palate : How Chemical Dyes Changed the West's Relationship with Food
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Title
A Rainbow Palate : How Chemical Dyes Changed the West's Relationship with Food / Carolyn Cobbold.
ISBN
9780226727196
Publication
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2020]
Copyright Notice Date
©2020
Physical Description
1 online resource (288 p.) : 4 halftones, 3 tables
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Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
In English.
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Summary
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. Originally intended for textiles, the new dyes soon permeated daily life in unexpected ways, and by the time the risks and uncertainties surrounding the synthesized chemicals began to surface, they were being used in everything from clothes and home furnishings to cookware and food. In A Rainbow Palate, Carolyn Cobbold explores how the widespread use of new chemical substances influenced perceptions and understanding of food, science, and technology, as well as trust in science and scientists. Because the new dyes were among the earliest contested chemical additives in food, the battles over their use offer striking insights and parallels into today's international struggles surrounding chemical, food, and trade regulation.
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De Gruyter University Press eBook pilot project 2020.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 17, 2022
Series
Synthesis
Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Preface
Introduction
1. Food adulteration and the rise of the food chemist
2. The wonder of coal tar dyes
3. From dye manufacturer to food manufacturer
4. The struggle to devise tests to detect dyes and assess their toxicity
5. The appointment of public food analysts in Britain
6. How British food chemists responded to the use of coal tar dyes
7. French and German chemists seek to arbitrate the use of synthetic chemicals in food
8. The US government acts against chemical dyes in food
Conclusion
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