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A review by jadecobain
White Bread: A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf by Aaron Bobrow-Strain
4.0
I'm fascinated by food history. Growing up I would watch the history channel because they had history of food episodes.
When I saw this book at the used book store I couldn't pass it up.
It covers varies moments of the history of bread. Back when bread was starting to be made in factory type places the big bread companies wanted to get rid of mom and pop factories so they would put out adds that eating bread from there was unclean and dangerous to your health. Once they put many mom and pops out of business they went after wives/mothers who were making bread at home by trying to tell the public either they can't make good bread or they shouldn't be making bread. It made women feel bad so they stopped making bread all together.
The fda did studies that showed most Americans are lacking vitamins so the fda asked the big bread companies hey want to put synthetic vitamins in the bread and all the big bread companies could think was about how they could make sooo much money off of enriched breads.
I found it interesting how now most people are trying to make their own breads and trying to avoid the store bought loaf.
The whole book kind of painted the big corporate bread companies as evil.
Reading sooo much about bread made me want to eat some while I read.
When I saw this book at the used book store I couldn't pass it up.
It covers varies moments of the history of bread. Back when bread was starting to be made in factory type places the big bread companies wanted to get rid of mom and pop factories so they would put out adds that eating bread from there was unclean and dangerous to your health. Once they put many mom and pops out of business they went after wives/mothers who were making bread at home by trying to tell the public either they can't make good bread or they shouldn't be making bread. It made women feel bad so they stopped making bread all together.
The fda did studies that showed most Americans are lacking vitamins so the fda asked the big bread companies hey want to put synthetic vitamins in the bread and all the big bread companies could think was about how they could make sooo much money off of enriched breads.
I found it interesting how now most people are trying to make their own breads and trying to avoid the store bought loaf.
The whole book kind of painted the big corporate bread companies as evil.
Reading sooo much about bread made me want to eat some while I read.