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Sinsheimer Literary, LLC is a boutique literary agency based in Washington, DC. Sinsheimer Literary exclusively represents nonfiction works by authors who have already established a platform in their chosen field. Submissions in the following areas are particularly encouraged: history, science and technology, social issues, and food and culture.
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Sinsheimer Literary was founded by Max Sinsheimer, who is a member of the Association of American Literary Agents (AALA). Max began his career as an editor at Oxford University Press, where he managed the popular food and drink Companion series and collaborated with well-known authors, including the public health advocate Marion Nestle, the lexicographer Bryan Garner, and the Brooklyn Brewery Brewmaster Garrett Oliver.
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SUGAR COATED
September | 2026
Pioneering scholar Marion Nestle joins forces with former cereal executive Lisa Sutherland to examine what cereal boxes reveal about American culture and food politics.
If you want to understand how the food business works, just have a look at a box of breakfast cereal. Hardly anything on supermarket shelves is bigger, bolder, or more deliberately designed. The fiercely competitive industry that brings us Cheerios, Froot Loops, and Trix sells a distinctly American dream: indulgence and health in one convenient package.
Cereal boxes chronicle our shifting national obsessions with health, ingredients, dietary advice, and American culture. They show us what sells food: cartoons for kids, athletes for men, weight loss for women. And hidden in the history of cereal package designs, we find clues to the corporate lobbying that shapes agricultural policy, health claims, and labeling regulations. Sugar Coated unboxes the influence of cereal companies on food policy and the power of marketing, revealing, in the process, why Big Food is so good at selling profitable products regardless of their effects on health.