Investigates the rise of the margarine industry and how it became an indispensable foodstuff. Discusses its inventor …, Hypolite Mege Mouries, born in France in October 1817, and how his research led to the development of margarine and its sale in … France in 1872. Sketches the growth of world margarine production and the formation of the giant Unilever through Margarine …

consideration. Gives as the first case a problematic study of soft margarine and goes on to give examples using a figure as an aid …