The No.1 New York Times Bestseller. In China for the first time the people who weigh too much now outnumber those who weigh too little. In Mexico the obesity rate has tripled in the past three decades. In the UK over 60 per cent of adults & 30 per cent of children are overweight while the United States remains the most obese country in the world. We are hooked on salt sugar & fat. These three simple ingredients are used by the major food companies to achieve the greatest allure for the lowest possible cost. Here Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Michael Moss exposes the practices of some of the most recognisable (and profitable) companies & brands of the last half century. He takes us inside the labs where food scientists use cutting-edge technology to calculate the 'bliss point' of sugary drinks. He unearths marketing campaigns designed
- in a technique adapted from the tobacco industry
- to redirect concerns about the health risks of their products & reveals how the makers of processed foods have chosen time & again to increase consumption & profits while gambling with our health. Are you ready for the truth about what's in your shopping basket?

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This is the story of saltpeter the vital but mysterious substance craved by governments from the Tudors to the Victorians as an inestimable treasure. National security depended on control of this organic material
- that had both mystical & mineral properties. Derived from soil enriched with dung & urine it provided the heart or mother of gunpowder without which no musket or cannon could be fired. Its acquisition involved alchemical knowledge exotic technology intrusions into peoples lives & eventual dominance of the worlds oceans. The quest for saltpeter caused widespread vexation in Tudor & Stuart England as crown agents dug in homes & barns & even churches. Governments hungry for it purchased supplies from overseas merchants transferred skills from foreign experts & extended patronage to ingenious schemers while the hated saltpetermen intruded on private ground. Eventually huge saltpeter imports from India relieved this social pressure & by the eighteenth century positioned Britain as a global imperial power; the governments of revolutionary America & ancien regime France on the other hand were forced to find alternative sources of this treasured substance. In the end it was only with the development of chemical explosives in the late Victorian period that dependency on saltpeter finally declined. Saltpeter the Mother of Gunpowder tells this fascinating story for the first time. Lively & entertaining in its own right it is also a tale with far-reaching implications. As David Cressys engaging narrative makes clear the story of saltpeter is vital not only in explaining the inter-connected military scientific & political revolutions of the seventeenth century; it also played a key role in the formation of the centralized British nation state
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Orla Tinsley is well known as a campaigner for the rights of people with Cystic Fibrosis in Irel&. In her memoir she takes us on a journey into the inner world of a child whose home from home was hospital yet who from an early age refused to allow her illness to define her. It is also a story about coming of age in todays Ireland as Orla takes us through school college & the pursuit of a dream to become a writer. She describes how her love of poetry & drama sustained her through difficult times & how writing in her journal was often a lifeline. She also tells of coming to terms with the loss of young friends through CF & her at times maverick fight to improve an under-par health system that for those with CF delivers a lesser life expectancy in Ireland than anywhere else in Europe. Orlas family instilled in her a mind-over-matter philosophy from an early age: if you cant do something one way keep trying until you find another. Breathe reveals the path of a young woman known for her fighting spirit: deeply personal at times shocking always honest & ultimately hopeful. ...

Michael Ruhlman & Brian Polcyn inspired a revival of artisanal sausage-making & bacon-curing with their surprise hit the excellent" (The Economist) Charcuterie (ISBN 978 0 393 05829 1). Now they delve deep into the Italian side of the craft with Salumi. Ruhlman & Polcyn give recipes for the eight basic products in Italys pork salumi repertoire: guanciale coppa spalla lardo lonza pancetta prosciutto & salami & they even show us how to butcher a pig. This book provides a thorough understanding of salumi with 100 recipes & illustrations of the art of ancient methods made modern & new." ...