Cake : a slice of history
Levene, Alysa, 1976-2016
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My sister had three wedding cakes. Rather than spend a lot of money on a traditional cake she asked our grandmother, our mother, and our step-mother to make their signature bakes. In our family, as in many others, these familiar cakes are the makers of memories. My siblings and I took this idea into our adult lives, and now bake for our own families. But it wasn't until I developed an interest in the history of food that I started to think about the deeper significance of these tasty treats. What does cake mean for different people? How have we come to have such a huge variety of cakes? What had to happen historically for them to appear? And what can they tell us about the family, and women's roles in particular? I wrote this book to find out the answers. What follows is a journey from King Alfred to our modern-day love of cupcakes.
Main title:
Cake : a slice of history / Alysa Levene.
Author:
Levene, Alysa, 1976-, author
Imprint:
London : Headline, 2016.London : Headline, 2016.
Collation:
352 pages
ISBN:
9781472226846 (hbk)
Dewey class:
641.8653641.865
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2278250