Bibliograph

Sweet and low, [a family story], by Rich Cohen

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Sweet and low, [a family story], by Rich Cohen

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eng

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Main title

Sweet and low

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by Rich Cohen

Sub title

[a family story]

Summary

This is the 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

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