THE ATHENAEUMA Treatise on Adulterations of Food, and Culinary PoisonsFriedrich Accum
Food History
A Treatise on Adulterations of Food, and Culinary Poisons
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textFriedrich Accum, a German chemist in London, published this in 1820 and named the tradesmen convicted of adulterating bread, beer, tea, pickles and sweets. Its title page showed a pot with snakes and a skull, and the words There is death in the pot. The book made him famous and made him enemies, and within two years he had left England after a scandal over pages cut from library books.
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 3 hours
- Where to find it
- On the Food History shelves
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #19031. In the public domain in the United States.