Baking Soda Bonanza Author:Peter A. Ciullo Baking soda is as close as Americans have to a miracle - it is cheap, ecologically sound, cleans better than most expensive commercial chemicals and is invaluable in cooking, where it is used to leaven cookies, muffins, breads and pancakes. Baking Soda Bonanza is an engaging, useful, one-of-a-kind look at sodium bicarbonate's ingenious uses and ... more »illustrious history.« less