The Man Who Invented Vegemite

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Murdoch Books
Publisher Place: Millers Point
Publisher Year: 2012
Edition: Reprint

Description: 224 pages. Ex-Library. Book is in general good condition. There is some light reading wear present, but still a presentable copy.

Publishers Description: Vegemite is perhaps Australias most enduring cultural icon, but how did it come to be createdCyril Callister was a passionate scientist and innovator, and his story is inextricably bound up with that of Australia in the first half of the 20th century.In the 1920s, Callister was employed by Fred Walker & Co to create a yeast extract, as imports of Marmite from the UK had been disrupted in the aftermath of World War I. He experimented with brewers yeast and independently developed what would later be called Vegemite.In The Man Who Invented Vegemite, Jamie Callister sets out to learn more about the grandfather he never met and, along the way, discovers that extraordinary things can happen to (almost) ordinary people.

ISBN: 9781742668567