# On the omnipresence of food-snobbery in everyday recipes **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** food-cooking\ **Created:** [December 22, 2023, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-the-omnipresence-of-food-snobbery-in-everyday-recipes/995007 "2023-12-22T20:28:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 206
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2023, 9:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-the-omnipresence-of-food-snobbery-in-everyday-recipes/995007/206 "2023-12-30T09:41:37Z")
one thing you have to remember is that 90 percent of American recipes are made by people pushing an agenda …i mean how many people have found out grandmas secret pie recipe came from a free cookbook given to her my the “apple Growers Washington” whose job was coming up with ways to sell more apples in 1921 but over the years just made from either memory or a unsourced card so the source was forgotten Or mom’s fudge recipe was the recipe that was on the back of the marshmallow cream jar? If you want to see how American cooking /was is manipulated by companies and groups look up the "baking powder war " > [@a piece of culinary history that i didnt know about -the baking powder war](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-piece-of-culinary-history-that-i-didnt-know-about-the-baking-powder-war/825586): > > while looking for an out of print recipie made by calumet baking powder company I found this …… apparently there was a “war” for 80 years between calumet that used a totally different formula from traditional baking powder companies and they fought back with tricks employed that would make Rockefeller and standard oil proud……… just thought some would find it interesting… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-the-omnipresence-of-food-snobbery-in-everyday-recipes/995007)._