EMPTY PLEASURES: THE STORY OF ARTIFICIAL SWEETENERS FROM SACCHARIN TO SPLENDA
Book ID/图书代码： 13014010B39167
English Summary/英文概要： 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.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 自从糖精于1893年世界博览会引入以来就成为了美国人的生活必需品。作者在此融入了流行文化，生意和妇女历史，介绍了美国第一批人造甜味剂的历史以及时至今日发展成健康元素的过程。在食物生产商、药剂公司等的共同努力下，还创造出了备受追捧的减肥佳品。美国人，尤其是妇女一直认为可以无止境畅享蛋糕，然而本书却极力力证，人造甜味剂不胖是个陷阱，是骗局，是麻烦之源，是坏的饮食习惯。那些所谓人造甜味剂的保证不足以信。(兼职翻译-XJJ)
Awards/获奖情况："Powerfully engaging . . . [a] highly readable narrative. . . . Strongly recommended for general readers who are interested in changes in the American diet and in their own food choices and for collections that focus on the history of industrial food."-Story Circle Book Reviews"Carolyn de la Pena conducts a thorough review of artificial sweeteners and how their role and perception have changed over the years."-Wilmington Star-News
"Fascinating."-The New Yorker "Book Bench" blog
"[De la Pena] is diligent, mostly even-handed and non-polemical."-National Review
"De la Pena’s substantial skills as a social and cultural historian are on fine display. . . . Illuminating discussion. . . . Offers a too rare glimpse of how the business of chemistry actually works."-Chemical & Engineering News
"This book does an excellent job of exploring the contested history of artificial sweeteners and their use in packaged food and drink. In de la Peña’s hands these substances become windows onto important aspects of the American experience."-American Historical Review
"Charmingly written and exhaustively researched, de la Pena’s exploration provides a fascinating look into a seemingly commonplace food additive."-ForeWord Magazine
"An insightful, multidisciplinary work particularly attractive to students of American studies."-The Journal of American History
"A welcome and an enlightening examination of consumption and its consequences."-PopMatters
"Empty Pleasures is full of insights about artificial sweeteners."-Gastronomica
"A well-cited, thought-provoking, and fascinating analysis of the sociological, psychological, political, and financial underpinnings of the promotion and use of artificial sweeteners in the U.S. . . . Highly Recommended"-CHOICE
"In its most intriguing chapter, the book details the "saccharin rebellion" . . . [which] reveals much about ordinary Americans’ perceptions of pleasure in a risk-filled world."-A Nota Bene Selection of The Chronicle Review
"In this cultural history, de la Pena shows how everyone from scientists to food conglomerates to ad agencies to women’s magazines have conspired to make Americans believe we can have our sweets and eat them too."-BarnesandNobleReview.com
"Absolutely fascinating. . . . This is not a book that scolds you for your gum habit or insists that drinking diet soda will cause you to put on pounds in the long term. Rather, it is a well-written guide to the history and development of a product that permanently changed our meal preparation, our manufacturing system, and our self-perception."-SeriousEats.com
About the Author/作者介绍： 卡洛琳娜•黛拉•佩娜（Carolyn de la Pena），加州大学美洲研究学教授，著有《身体电力：如何利用奇怪的器械建社当代美洲》（The Body Electric: How Strange Machines Built the Modern American）。 Carolyn de la Pena is a professor of American studies at the University of California, Davis. She is author of The Body Electric: How Strange Machines Built the Modern American.
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