Baking Powder Wars: The Cutthroat Food Fight that Revolutionized Cooking By Linda Civitello

Abstract

Apple pie might earn the patriotic superlative for “Most American” baked good, but it simply cannot compare to the variety of baked goods that arose from the “chemical independence” provided by American-made baking powders. In Baking Powder Wars, Linda Civitello demonstrates how baking powder answered anxieties about America’s evolving culture, helped shape a national foodways, and changed the role of domestic labor in the American home.