Baking powder wars: the cutthroat food fight that revolutionized cooking

Introduction

The burden of bread: bread before baking powder

The liberation of cake: chemical independence, 1796

The rise of baking powder business: the Northeast, 1856-1876

The advertising war begins: corporate cookbooks, 1876-1888

The cream of tartar wars: battle royal, 1888-1899

The rise of baking powder business: the Midwest, 1880s-1890s

The pure food war: outlaws in Missouri, 1899-1906

The alum war and World War I: "what a fumin' about egg albumen," 1907-1920

The Federal Trade Commission wars: the final federal battle, 1920-1929

The price war: the fight for the national market, 1930-1950

Baking powder today: post-World War II to the twenty-first century.