Books & Authors
Author Talk: Hear About How Great Island Has a Connection to the History of Baking Powder
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A fascinating dive into a culinary baking staple and how it relates to Darien’s Great Island! Darien Library welcomes author, Dr. Linda Civitello, who will talk about her book, Baking Powder Wars: The Cutthroat Food Fight that Revolutionized Cooking. Smithsonian magazine named Baking Powder Wars one of the “10 Best Food Books of 2017.” What’s the Great Island connection? In the 1900s, Great Island was the summer home of industrialist William Ziegler, one of the founders of the Royal Baking Powder Company.