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Sweet And Low: A Family Story
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Sweet And Low: A Family Story (edit title)

by Rich Cohen (Author) (edit contributors)

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Description

Sweet and Low is the bittersweet, hilarious story of Ben Eisenstadt, who invented sugar packets and Sweet'N Low, and amassed the great fortune that would later destroy his family. It is a story of immigrants, Jewish gangsters, and Brooklyn; of sugar, saccharine, obesity, and diet crazes; of... read more

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Cumberland Packing, the company that manufactures Sweet'N Low, occupies a boxy building across the street from the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

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  1. Rich Cohen (Author)

First Edition

Original Language: English
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2006
ISBN: 0374272298
Page Count: 288

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