history I would need to brush up on given that Wiley worked for the federal government. What I hadn’t realized was how much basic U.S. It really was a kind of mental whiplash to emerge from 19th century papers and jump onto a Metro train back to my hotel. I also read through cookbooks, trade journals, and scholarly publications about Wiley and his work. Wiley’s wife, a librarian, donated all of his papers, including department memos, diaries, telegrams, and newspaper clippings. I spent weeks in the Library of Congress archives. Copies of them are now stacked up all over my home office. I read all of the food inspection reports.
At my agent’s advice, I wrote a long letter, about eight pages, to my editor and she bought the book. Now I thought I had something that mattered: the invention of food safety at the turn of the 20th century, the beginning of consumer protection by the government.
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