Swallow This: Serving Up the Food Industry’s Darkest Secrets. Joanna Blythman
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Название: Swallow This: Serving Up the Food Industry’s Darkest Secrets
Автор: Joanna Blythman
Издательство: HarperCollins
Жанр: Кулинария
isbn: 9780007548347
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First published in Great Britain by Fourth Estate 2015
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In memory of Derek Cooper,
a fellow foot soldier in the food wars.
Contents
PART ONE: How the processed food system works
PART TWO: The defining characteristics of processed food
Journalists don’t like to be palmed off with half the story, but even though I had 25 years of food chain investigations under my belt, six books to my name, and a collection of awards and gongs on my trophy shelf, I had a sneaking suspicion that this was exactly what was happening. Unanswered, or only partially answered, questions about the food we consume each day nagged away at the back of my mind. How ‘natural’ is the process for making a ‘natural’ flavouring? What, exactly, is modified starch, and why is this ingredient in so many foods? What is done to pitta bread to make it stay ‘fresh’ for six months? Why, when I eat a supermarket salad, does the taste linger in my mouth for several hours after? Slowly but surely, I realised just how little information about food production methods is in the public realm, despite the best efforts of those of us who interrogate the inner workings of the industry.
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