Chocolate Wars The 150-Year Rivalry Between the World's Greatest Chocolate Makers

by Cadbury, Deborah

• ISBN13: 9781610390514
• ISBN10: 1610390512
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-10-25
• Publisher: PublicAffairs

Summary

"The inside story of the 150-year rivalry among Cadbury, Hershey, Nestle, and Mars is a fascinating and luscious tale. Deborah Cadbury, great-great-great- granddaughter of 19th-century chocolate maker John Cadbury, tells it eloquently in Chocolate Wars, drawing the reader into her epic of family and industry with clear love for her subject."-- Philadelphia Inquirer "This is a delicious book, seductive as a tray of bonbons, a Fancy Box in every way."-- Washington Post "[ Chocolate Wars] pits idealism against capitalism, religious piety against the forces of greed and cutthroat competition. Though, like great fiction, it defies belief, it's the true story of our favorite guilty pleasure. Cadbury's book, like her namesake's famous sampler, is full of surprises and delights." -- Christian Science Monitor "The reader of Chocolate Warsfeels they are getting an insider's view."-- Financial Times "Fascinating...Read this excellent book." -- Los Angeles Times

Author Biography

Deborah Cadbury is the author of eight acclaimed books, including Chocolate Wars; The Dinosaur Hunters; The Lost King of France; Seven Wonders of the Industrial World, for which her accompanying BBC series received a BAFTA nomination; and Princes at War. As a BBC TV producer and executive producer, she has won numerous international awards, including an Emmy. She lives in London.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. ix
A Nation of Shopkeepers	p. 3
Food of the Gods	p. 21
Wretched Little Victims of the Workhouses	p. 32
They Did Not Show Us Any Mercy	p. 44
Absolutely Pure, Therefore Best	p. 55
Chocolate That Could Melt in the Mouth	p. 77
Machinery Creates Wealth but Destroys Men	p. 86
Money Seems to Disappear Like Magic	p. 105
Chocolate Empires	p. 117
I'll Stake Everything on Chocolate!	p. 135
Great Wealth Is Not to Be Desired	p. 151
A Serpentine and Malevolent Cocoa Magnate	p. 173
The Chocolate Man's Utopia	p. 184
That Monstrous Trade in Flesh and Blood	p. 197
God Could Have Created Us Sinless	p. 210
This Company Isn't Big Enough for Both of Us	p. 233
I Pray for Snickers	p. 247
American Tanks Were on the Lawn	p. 260
The Quaker Voice Could Still Be Heard	p. 273
They'd Sell for 20p	p. 286
Gone. And It Was So Easy.	p. 300
Epilogue	p. 315
Acknowledgments	p. 321
Bibliography	p. 325
Index	p. 335
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