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Be it a birthday or a wedding--let them eat cake. Encased in icing, crowned with candles, emblazoned with congratulatory words--cake is the ultimate food of celebration in many cultures around the world. But how did cake come to be the essential food marker of a significant occasion? In Cake: A Global History, Nicola Humble explores the meanings, legends, rituals, and symbolism attached to cake through the ages.
Humble describes the many national differences in cake-making techniques, customs, and regional histories--from the French g teau Paris-Brest, named for a cycle race and designed to imitate the form of a bicycle wheel, to the American Lady Baltimore cake, likely named for a fictional cake in a 1906 novel by Owen Wister. She also details the role of cake in literature, art, and film--including Miss Havisham's imperishable wedding cake in Great Expectations and Marcel Proust's madeleine of memory--as well as the art and architecture of cake making itself.
Featuring a large selection of mouthwatering images, as well as many examples and recipes for some particularly unusual cakes, Cake will provide many sweet reasons for celebration.
- Format: Hardcover
- Author: Humble, Nicola
- ISBN: 9781861896483
- Condition: Used
- Dimensions: 7.80 x 0.70
- Number Of Pages: 144
- Publication Year: 2010
Language:
English