@article{439055,
      recid = {439055},
      author = {Krondl, Michael.},
      title = {Sweet invention a history of dessert / [electronic  resource] :},
      publisher = {Chicago Review Press,},
      address = {Chicago, Ill. :},
      pages = {1 online resource (418 p.)},
      year = {2011},
      abstract = {"A social, cultural, and-above all-culinary history of  dessert, Sweet Invention explores the world's great dessert  traditions, from ancient India to 21st-century Indiana.  Each chapter begins with author Michael Krondl tasting and  analyzing an icon of dessert, such as baklava from the  Middle East or macarons from France, and then combines  extensive scholarship with a lively writing style to spin  an ancient tale of some of the world's favorite treats and  their creators. From the sweet makers of Persia who gave us  the first donuts to the sugar sculptors of Renaissance  Italy whose creativity gave rise to the modern-day wedding  cake, this authoritative read clears up numerous  misconceptions about the origins of various desserts, while  elucidating their social, political, religious-and even  sexual-uses through the ages"--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/439055},
}