| Sweet and Low Contributor(s): Cohen, Rich (Author) |
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ISBN: 0312426011 ISBN-13: 9780312426019 Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL OUR PRICE: $20.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2007 Annotation: "Sweet and Low" is the amazing, bittersweet, hilarious story of an American family and its patriarch, a short-order cook named Ben Eisenstadt who, in the years after World War II invented the sugar packet and Sweet 'N Low, converting his Brooklyn cafeteria into a factory and amassing the great fortune that would destroy his family. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Business - History | United States - 20th Century - Biography & Autobiography | Culinary |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" (0.75 lbs) 288 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Ethnic Orientation - Jewish |
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| Publisher Description: Sweet and Low is the amazing, bittersweet, hilarious story of an American family and its patriarch, a short-order cook named Ben Eisenstadt who, in the years after World War II, invented the sugar packet and Sweet'N Low, converting his Brooklyn cafeteria into a factory and amassing the great fortune that would destroy his family. It is also the story of immigrants to the New World, sugar, saccharine, obesity, and the health and diet craze, played out across countries and generations but also within the life of a single family, as the fortune and the factory passed from generation to generation. The author, Rich Cohen, a grandson (disinherited, and thus set free, along with his mother and siblings), has sought the truth of this rancorous, colorful history, mining thousands of pages of court documents accumulated in the long and sometimes corrupt life of the factor, and conducting interviews with members of his extended family. Along the way, the forty-year family battle over the fortune moves into its titanic phase, with the money and legacy up for grabs. Sweet and Low is the story of this struggle, a strange comic farce of machinations and double dealings, and of an extraordinary family and its fight for the American dream. |
Contributor Bio(s): Cohen, Rich: - New York Times bestselling author Rich Cohen is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and Rolling Stone and the author of Israel Is Real, Tough Jews and the widely acclaimed memoir Sweet and Low. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine and Best American Essays. He lives in Connecticut with his wife, three sons and dog. |