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Jell-O girls : a family history

Rowbottom, Allie, author

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\"A memoir ... of one of America's most iconic branding campaigns with the stirring tales of the women who lived behind its facade-- told by the inheritor of their stories. In 1899, Allie Rowbottom's great-great-great-uncle bought the patent to Jell-O from its inventor for $450. The sale would turn out to be one of the most profitable business deals in American history, and the generations that followed enjoyed immense privilege-- but they were also haunted by suicides, cancer, alcoholism, and mysterious ailments. More than 100 years after that deal was struck, Allie's mother Mary was diagnosed with the same incurable cancer, a disease that had also claimed her own mother's life. Determined to combat what she had come to consider the 'Jell-O curse' and her looming mortality, Mary began obsessively researching her family's past, determined to understand the origins of her illness and the impact on her life of Jell-O and the traditional American values the company championed. Before she died in 2015, Mary began to send Allie boxes of her research and notes, in the hope that her daughter might write what she could not\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
• Subject: Rowbottom, Allie Family. / Woodward family. / Jell-O Company History. / General Foods Corporation. Jell-O Division History. / Mothers and daughters United States. / Food industry and trade United States. / Family-owned business enterprises United States History.
• ISBN: 9780316510615

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
TP369.52.R69 A3 2018	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE