Cake: A Global History
Author:   Nicola Humble
Publisher:   Reaktion Books
ISBN:  

9781861896483


Pages:   144
Publication Date:   01 April 2010
Format:   Hardback
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Cake: A Global History


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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.

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Author:   Nicola Humble
Publisher:   Reaktion Books
Imprint:   Reaktion Books
Dimensions:   Width: 19.70cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 12.00cm
Weight:   0.318kg
ISBN:  

9781861896483


ISBN 10:   1861896484
Pages:   144
Publication Date:   01 April 2010
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Temporarily unavailable   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction: When is a Cake Not a Cake? 1 Cakes through History 2 Cakes Around the World 3 The Culture of Baking Cake 4 The Rituals and Symbolism of Cake 5 Literary Cake 6 Postmodern Cakes Recipes References Select Bibliography Websites and Associations Acknowledgements Photo Acknowledgements Index

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These are food memoirs, salacious and exotic, colorful, powdered, sweet, greasy and globe-trotting ... sharp and speedy little reads, spotted with off-kilter illustrations Chicago Tribune


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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.

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