Sweet invention [electronic resource] : a history of dessert / Michael Krondl.
Krondl, Michael.
2011
TX773 .K7154 2011eb
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Title Sweet invention [electronic resource] : a history of dessert / Michael Krondl.
Author Krondl, Michael.
Edition 1st ed.
ISBN 9781569769522 (electronic bk.)
9781556529542
Publication Details Chicago, Ill. : Chicago Review Press, 2011.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (418 p.)
Call Number TX773 .K7154 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 641.8/6
Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Sacred fudge : India
A thousand and one sweet layers : Middle East
Sugar and spice : Italy
Let them eat cake : France
Schlag and Strauss : Vienna
A democracy of sweetness : United States
Finale : cupcakes and macarons.

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