Cake - A Global History

Informationen zum Autor Nicola Humble is Professor of English Literature at Roehampton University. She is the author of Culinary Pleasures: Cook Books and the Transformation of British Food , as well as Victorian Heroines: Representations of Femininity in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Art . Klappentext What birthday! wedding! bar mitzvah or children's party would be complete without it? This book explores the origin of modern cake and its development from sweet bread to architectural flight of fancy! together with the meanings! legends and rituals attached to cake throughout the world. Zusammenfassung What birthday! wedding! bar mitzvah or children's party would be complete without it? This book explores the origin of modern cake and its development from sweet bread to architectural flight of fancy! together with the meanings! legends and rituals attached to cake throughout the world.

Product details

• Authors: Nicola Humble, Humble Nicola
• Publisher: Reaktion Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2010
• EAN: 9781861896483
• ISBN: 978-1-86189-648-3
• No. of pages: 144
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 205 mm x 15 mm
• Series: The Edible Series; Edible; Edible (Reaktion Books); Edible; The Edible Series; Edible (Reaktion Books)
• Subjects: Guides > Food & drink > Baking; Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte, Backen, Brot, Kuchen und Feingebäck, baking, COOKING / Methods / Baking, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Food & society, Cakes, baking, icing & sugarcraft, Social and cultural history, Cultural studies: food and society