5/31/2023 0 Comments The Poison Squad by Deborah BlumBy some estimates, in New York City alone, thousands of children were killed by "embalmed milk" every year. Unchecked by government regulation, basic safety, or even labelling requirements, they put profit before the health of their customers. This was not by accident food manufacturers had rushed to embrace the rise of industrial chemistry, and were knowingly selling harmful products. Decaying meat was preserved with both salicylic acid, a pharmaceutical chemical, and borax, a compound first identified as a cleaning product. "Milk" might contain formaldehyde, most often used to embalm corpses. Harvey Washington Wiley, who fought for change.īy the end of nineteenth century, food was dangerous. From Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times-bestselling author Deborah Blum, the dramatic true story of how food was made safe in the United States and the heroes, led by the inimitable Dr.
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5/31/2023 0 Comments Fever keaneWith this seemingly preposterous theory, he made Mallon a hunted woman. Then one determined "medical engineer" noticed that she left a trail of disease wherever she cooked, and identified her as an "asymptomatic carrier" of Typhoid Fever. Sought after by New York aristocracy, and with an independence rare for a woman of the time, she seemed to have achieved the life she'd aimed for when she arrived in Castle Garden. Canny and enterprising, she worked her way to the kitchen, and discovered in herself the true talent of a chef. Brave, headstrong, and dreaming of being a cook, she fought to climb up from the lowest rung of the domestic-service ladder. On the eve of the twentieth century, Mary Mallon emigrated from Ireland at age fifteen to make her way in New York City. Mary Beth Keane, named one of the 5 Under 35 by the National Book Foundation, has written a spectacularly bold and intriguing novel about the woman known as "Typhoid Mary," the first person in America identified as a healthy carrier of Typhoid Fever. A bold, mesmerizing novel about the woman known as "Typhoid Mary," the first known healthy carrier of typhoid fever in the early twentieth century-by an award-winning writer chosen as one of "5 Under 35" by the National Book Foundation. 5/31/2023 0 Comments Book the glass hotelThe Glass Hotel isn't dystopian fiction rather it's "straight" literary fiction, gorgeous and haunting, about the porous boundaries between past and present, the rich and the poor, and the realms of the living and the dead. The critical consensus on Station Eleven was that it would be a near impossible novel to top mercifully, Mandel struck off in a totally different direction. John Mandels latest novel, The Glass Hotel, is a timely look at a world derailed by financial fraud The Glass Hotel: Emily St. Mandel's last novel was the acclaimed, mega-bestseller, Station Eleven - a post-apocalyptic tale about a troupe of actors roaming around North America after a virus has wiped out most of the world's population. ew readers will come to Emily St John Mandel’s fifth novel, The Glass Hotel, unaware of her fourth, 2014’s Station Eleven, which imagined a world ravaged by a hyper-lethal form of swine flu. For me, over the past 10 days or so, the novel that's performed that act of deliverance has been The Glass Hotel, by Emily St. Unless, that is, the recommendation is for a novel that's so absorbing, so fully realized that it draws you out of your own constricted situation and expands your sense of possibilities. So recommending a book can seem, well, out-of-touch. I've heard versions of that sentence on the phone, in person (at a distance), on email, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, on Zoom and Skype and all the other devices and online platforms we're using to stay connected with each other these days. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Glass Hotel Author Emily St. |