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.
