Saturday, March 14, 2015

Book Shelf: A treatise on adulteration of food, and culinary poisons, exhibiting the fraudulent sophistications of bread, beer, wine, spirituous liquors, tea, oil, pickles, and other articles employed in domestic economy.

How did our ancestors survive?

 

[A treatise on adulteration of food, and culinary poisons, exhibiting the fraudulent sophistications of bread, beer, wine, spirituous liquors, tea, oil, pickles, and other articles employed in domestic economy. And methods of detecting them. The 2d ed. By Frederick Accum ...
Published 1820 by Sold by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown in London .
Source: Internet Archive  Contributor: University of California Libraries.]

A hat tip to The Public Domain Review for this.

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2 comments:

  1. Oh, I love that! I didn't know that they had those fears in 1820, I thought we invented fear of food. Is there somewhere on line one can read the whole book?

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    1. The Internet Archive link in the caption will take you to the book. Enjoy!

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