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Title: Empty Pleasures
Subtitle: The Story of Artificial Sweeteners from Saccharin to Splenda
Author: Carolyn de la Pena
Narrator: Navida Stein
Format: Unabridged
Length: 22 hrs and 54 mins
Language: English
Release date: 12-10-10
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 2.5 of 5 out of 6 votes
Genres: History, World
Publisher's Summary:
Sugar substitutes have been a part of American life since saccharin was introduced at the 1893 World's Fair. In Empty Pleasures, the first history of artificial sweeteners in America, Carolyn de la Pena blends popular culture with business and women's history, examining the invention, production, marketing, regulation, and consumption of sugar substitutes such as saccharin, Sucaryl, NutraSweet, and Splenda. She describes how saccharin, an accidental laboratory by-product, was transformed from a perceived adulterant into a healthy ingredient. As food producers and pharmaceutical companies worked together to create diet products, savvy women's magazine writers and editors promoted artificially sweetened foods as ideal, modern weight-loss aids, and early diet-plan entrepreneurs built menus and fortunes around pleasurable dieting made possible by artificial sweeteners .NutraSweet, Splenda, and their predecessors have enjoyed enormous success by promising that Americans, especially women, can "have their cake and eat it too," but Empty Pleasures argues that these "sweet cheats" have fostered troubling and unsustainable eating habits and that the promises of artificial sweeteners are ultimately too good to be true.
Critic Reviews:
"Empty Pleasures is full of insights about artificial sweeteners and what they have to tell us about 'our vexed relationship with food in the 20th century." (Gastronomica)
