Deborah Cadbury is a writer, award-winning documentary producer for the BBC, the author of seven books, and a relative of the famous Quaker family that gave their name to one of the world's most famous brands of chocolate.
Boston Globe, November 14, 2010
"Deborah Cadbury begins with a brief description of Quaker aims and
humane business practices before moving on through the history of
the family business. This takes in the truly exciting race to put
Cadbury's chocolate candy in every mouth, to the exclusion of that
made by rival English Quaker firms, Rowntree and Fry, to say
nothing of the Swiss Lindt and Nestle. Her many faceted account
takes in technology, distribution, and industrial espionage,
advertising and packaging, labor relations and model housing for
workers, the role of the firm and its owners in wartime and
international expansion." Gulfnews.com, November 26, 2010
"Engaging and scholarly, Chocolate Wars is less a family biography
than an impressively thought-provoking parable for our times." Los
Angeles Times, November 28, 2010
"Fascinating...Read this excellent book."
Philadelphia Inquirer, November 28, 2010
"The inside story of the 150-year rivalry among Cadbury, Hershey,
Nestle, and Mars is a fascinating and luscious tale. Deborah
Cadbury, great-great-great-granddaughter of 19th-century chocolate
maker John Cadbury, tells it eloquently in Chocolate Wars, drawing
the reader into her epic of family and industry with clear love for
her subject."Christian Science Monitor, December 1, 2010
"[Chocolate Wars] pits idealism against capitalism, religious piety
against the forces of greed and cutthroat competition. Though, like
great fiction, it defies belief, it's the true story of our
favorite guilty pleasure. Cadbury's book, like her namesake's
famous sampler, is full of surprises and delights."Bnreview.com,
December 2010
"This engaging history of the 150-year rivalry among the world's
greatest chocolate makers--the English firms Fry, Rowntree, and
Cadbury (to which the author, Deborah Cadbury, is an heiress),
their European competitors Lindt and Nestle, and the American
upstarts Hershey and Mars--is delightful, especially for its
fascinating portrait of the 19th-century success of Quaker
capitalism, built quite remuneratively on the ideal that wealth
creation entails responsibilities beyond personal gain."
Business Times
"Fascinating...Chocolate Wars presents narrative history at its
most absorbing, peopled by colourful characters: the true story of
the chocolate pioneers, the visions and ideals that inspired them
and the mouth-watering concoctions they created... Deborah gives
readers an insider look, fleshing out the stories around her family
with her familiar competence as a bestselling historian and award
winning documentary maker."
Kirkus
"A fine pocket history of corporate confectionery... Cadbury has a
knack for capturing the driven personalities who launched these
[chocolate] empires."
Library Journal
"Although written by proud Cadbury kin, the narrative is balanced
and fair. This is a well written and well researched look at
chocolate and the Quaker business tradition that any food or
history buff will enjoy."Sunday Times
"Chocolate Wars - clear, readable and richly detailed - is at least
as much about Quakers as it is about chocolate...
enjoyable."Financial Times, November 15, 2010
"Deborah Cadbury's branch of the Cadbury family wasn't involved in
the chocolate business but she garnered a deep impression from a
childhood visit to her cousins' company and the reader of Chocolate
Wars feels they are getting an insider's view. Her own background
as a historian and TV documentary maker means that this book
communicates in an episodic and visual style, making what risks
being a dull subject gripping as it flips back and forth around the
world documenting parallel events in the emergence of the chocolate
industry."Examiner.com, November 14, 2010
"The 150-year rivalry among the world's greatest chocolate making
families, is told by a descendant of one of the families. Just
think what sweetness came out of these families' rivalries,
depicted deliciously in this new book."
Booklist, October 1, 2010
"This tale of capitalist rivalry mixed with Quaker values makes for
a very sweet journey."Washington Post
"This is a delicious book, seductive as a tray of bonbons, a Fancy
Box in every way."The New Yorker Book Bench
"For chocolate lovers and Roald Dahl fans, some heartening news:
Willy Wonka's factory - or at least something that sounds very much
like it - was a real place... Though Cadbury begins with teasingly
enviable childhood recollections... the story she tells is really
about Quakers, and one family's continuous struggle to reconcile
religious values - pacifism, austerity, sobriety - with the
indulgent nature of their product and the ruthlessly competitive
capitalism of the world in which they made their fortune... It's
hard not to root for these guys and the story is all the more
bittersweet because we know how it ends."The Daily Telegraph
"Engaging and scholarly, confident and compassionate, Chocolate
Wars is less a family biography than an impressively thought
provoking parable for our times... A vibrant history."
"Booklist," October 1, 2010
"This tale of capitalist rivalry mixed with Quaker values makes for
a very sweet journey.""Washington Post"
"This is a delicious book, seductive as a tray of bonbons, a Fancy
Box in every way.""The New Yorker Book Bench"
"For chocolate lovers and Roald Dahl fans, some heartening news:
Willy Wonka's factory - or at least something that sounds very much
like it - was a real place... Though Cadbury begins with teasingly
enviable childhood recollections... the story she tells is really
about Quakers, and one family's continuous struggle to reconcile
religious values - pacifism, austerity, sobriety - with the
indulgent nature of their product and the ruthlessly competitive
capitalism of the world in which they made their fortune... It's
hard not to root for these guys and the story is all the more
bittersweet because we know how it ends.""The Daily Telegraph"
"Engaging and scholarly, confident and compassionate, "Chocolate
Wars" is less a family biography than an impressively thought
provoking parable for our times... A vibrant history."
"Business Times"
"Fascinating..."Chocolate Wars" presents narrative history at its
most absorbing, peopled by colourful characters: the true story of
the chocolate pioneers, the visions and ideals that inspired them
and the mouth-watering concoctions they created... Deborah gives
readers an insider look, fleshing out the stories around her family
with her familiar competence as a bestselling historian and award
winning documentary maker."
"Kirkus"
"A fine pocket history of corporate confectionery... Cadbury has a
knack for capturing the driven personalities who launched these
[chocolate] empires."
"Library Journal"
"Although written by proud Cadbury kin, the narrative is balanced
and fair. This is a well written and well researched look at
chocolate and the Quaker business tradition that any food or
history buff will enjoy.""Sunday Times"
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