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Cake: A Global History

Nicola Humble

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Description:What birthday, wedding, bar mitzvah or children's party would be complete without a cake? In nutritional terms cake is completely unnecessary, and yet it plays a crucial role in celebrations and rituals within the majority of cultures around the world. Despite being such a popular foodstuff, however, cake is a curiously neglected subject; "Cake: A Global History" redresses the balance by closely examining the origin of modern cake, and its development and evolution through time. Nicola Humble explores the meanings, legends, rituals and symbolism attached to cake through the ages and dispels many myths and misconceptions. Cake reviews the wide variety of, and the many national differences in cake-making techniques and customs - the French for example have the gateau Paris-Brest, which is named after the cycle race and is designed to imitate the form of a bicycle wheel; in America there is New England's Election Day cake or the Southern favourite, Lady Baltimore cake. Nicola Humble also relates the food's place in literature, art, and film - Miss Haversham's imperishable wedding cake for example, in Dickens' "Great Expectations" or Proust's oft-remembered madeleine, as well as how far the cake can be seen as a structure or a work of art in its own right. The book also explores the psychology of cake, including issues of humour, gender, motherhood, sweetness and guilt. Featuring a large selection of mouth-watering images, as well as many examples and recipes for some particularly unusual cakes, "Cake" will appeal to the many readers with an interest in food, social, cultural, literary and art history - or indeed just in cake.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Cake: A Global History. To get started finding Cake: A Global History, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: What birthday, wedding, bar mitzvah or children's party would be complete without a cake? In nutritional terms cake is completely unnecessary, and yet it plays a crucial role in celebrations and rituals within the majority of cultures around the world. Despite being such a popular foodstuff, however, cake is a curiously neglected subject; "Cake: A Global History" redresses the balance by closely examining the origin of modern cake, and its development and evolution through time. Nicola Humble explores the meanings, legends, rituals and symbolism attached to cake through the ages and dispels many myths and misconceptions. Cake reviews the wide variety of, and the many national differences in cake-making techniques and customs - the French for example have the gateau Paris-Brest, which is named after the cycle race and is designed to imitate the form of a bicycle wheel; in America there is New England's Election Day cake or the Southern favourite, Lady Baltimore cake. Nicola Humble also relates the food's place in literature, art, and film - Miss Haversham's imperishable wedding cake for example, in Dickens' "Great Expectations" or Proust's oft-remembered madeleine, as well as how far the cake can be seen as a structure or a work of art in its own right. The book also explores the psychology of cake, including issues of humour, gender, motherhood, sweetness and guilt. Featuring a large selection of mouth-watering images, as well as many examples and recipes for some particularly unusual cakes, "Cake" will appeal to the many readers with an interest in food, social, cultural, literary and art history - or indeed just in cake.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Cake: A Global History. To get started finding Cake: A Global History, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

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