TONIGHT: Bee Wilson book signing at Barnes and Noble

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TONIGHT: Bee Wilson book signing at Barnes and Noble

POSTED: Tuesday, October 14, 2008, 10:23 PM

Filed Under: Food Books

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Bee Wilson, award-winning food columnist for London's Sunday Telegraph, will appear at the Rittenhouse Barnes and Noble (1805 Walnut St., 215-665-0716) at 7 p.m. this evening to sign copies of her new book Swindled: The Dark History of Food Fraud, from Poisoned Candy to Counterfeit Coffee (Princeton University Press). Official release date is tomorrow, Oct. 15.

We here at Meal Ticket were lucky enough to snag an advance of the book, which is full up with dense, amazingly researched chapters on things like the widespread adulteration of English tea, the insanely detailed practice of bottling counterfeit French wine, bastardized condiments and putrid Christmas geese pawned off as fresh fowl.

The book is quite relevant, too, considering all the consumer food scares of the past year. See Wilson's recent NYT op-ed on tainted baby formula in China. The same exact thing happened in New York more than a century ago.

It's a shocking and engrossing read. Definitely check it out.

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