{"product_id":"sweet-and-low-paperback","title":"Sweet and Low - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRich Cohen\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSweet and Low\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt 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. \u003ci\u003eSweet and Low \u003c\/i\u003eis 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRich Cohen\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eTough Jews, The Avengers, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Machers and Rockers, \u003c\/i\u003eand the memoir\u003ci\u003e Lake Effect\u003c\/i\u003e. His work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Vanity Fair, \u003c\/i\u003e among many other publications, and he is a contributing editor to \u003ci\u003eRolling Stone\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.4 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 20, 2007\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42694765903935,"sku":"9780312426019","price":27.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/fcf19d428e629f7b26723ceec683ae2d_57af09c5-5af2-4c7d-bb97-7259255bd86b.webp?v=1765002016","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/sweet-and-low-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}