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Sweet and Low

By Rich Cohen

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Sweet and Low

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Sweet and Low is the amazing, bittersweet, hilarious story of an American family and its patriarch, a short-order cook named Ben Eisenstadt who, in the years after World War II, invented the sugar packet and Sweet'N Low, converting his Brooklyn cafeteria into a factory and amassing the great fortune that would destroy his family. It is also the story of immigrants to the New World, sugar, saccharine, obesity, and the health and diet craze, played out across countries and generations but also within the life of a single family, as the fortune and the factory passed from generation to generation. The author, Rich Cohen, a grandson (disinherited, and thus set free, along with his mother and siblings), has sought the truth of this rancorous, colorful history, mining thousands of pages of court documents accumulated in the long and sometimes corrupt life of the factor, and conducting interviews with members of his extended family. Along the way, the forty-year family battle over the fortune moves into its titanic phase, with the money and legacy up for grabs. Sweet and Low is the story of this struggle, a strange comic farce of machinations and double dealings, and of an extraordinary family and its fight for the American dream.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
290
Release Date:
2007-03-20
Publication Date:
2007-03-20
Publisher:
St. Martins Press-3PL
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0312426011
ISBN13:
9780312426019
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
412 g
Height:
140 cm
Width:
216 cm
Thickness:
17 cm
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