Book of the Week - Swindled: From Poisoned Sweets to Counterfeit Coffee
Bee Wilson's history of food adulteration over the centuries
Book of the Week - Swindled: From Poisoned Sweets to Counterfeit Coffee - Episode 1
Swindled: From Poisoned Sweets to Counterfeit Coffee. By Bee Wilson. 1/5: A Treatise on Adulteration of Food and Culinary Poisons by Frederick Accum was published in 1820.
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Book of the Week - Swindled: From Poisoned Sweets to Counterfeit Coffee - Episode 2
Swindled: From Poisoned Sweets to Counterfeit Coffee. By Bee Wilson. 2/5: The history of tampering with food from Roman times to the present day tells a sinister story.
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Book of the Week - Swindled: From Poisoned Sweets to Counterfeit Coffee - Episode 3
Swindled: From Poisoned Sweets to Counterfeit Coffee. By Bee Wilson. 3/5: The history of tampering with food in America is just as shocking as that in Britain.
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Book of the Week - Swindled: From Poisoned Sweets to Counterfeit Coffee - Episode 4
Swindled: From Poisoned Sweets to Counterfeit Coffee. By Bee Wilson. 4/5: The two world wars encouraged new extremes of ingenuity in food adulteration.
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Book of the Week - Swindled: From Poisoned Sweets to Counterfeit Coffee - Episode 5
Swindled: From Poisoned Sweets to Counterfeit Coffee. By Bee Wilson. 5/5: The food swindlers continue to find ever more sophisticated ways of adulterating our food.
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