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Ever since man first stumbled upon a honeycomb and tried its contents, people have steadily developed a taste for sweetness. Across the ages, honey made way for sugar, and sugar went from being a luxurious seasoning to a cheap household staple, but it has never lost its charm and continues to hold us in its thrall. Ever since man first stumbled upon a honeycomb and tried its contents, people have steadily developed a taste for sweetness. Across the ages, honey made way for sugar, and sugar went from being a luxurious seasoning to a cheap household staple, but it has never lost its charm and continues to hold us in its thrall. In this all encompassing collection, award-winning author Gaitri Pagrach-Chandra shows us how to create crunchy brittles, tempting truffles, sticky toffees, caramels, nougat, honeycomb and more. Join her on a worldwide story of sugar from Indian milk sweets to nutty Spanish marzipans; from tiny French sponge cakes to Scottish fudge. With over 120 easy-to-follow recipes offering small delights from near and far, this is the ideal book for all the family, for entertaining or for making and giving gifts.

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Gaitri Pagrach-Chandra draws on her own multi-cultural background for her delicious recipe collections. A Guyanese Hindu of Indian ancestry, who married into a European Jewish family, she is a food historian and freelance translator. she has authored a book on Dutch baking - Windmills in my Oven - and her second book, Warm Bread and Honey Cake, won the Guild of Food Writers Cookery Book of the Year 2010. She is also the author of Wrapped: Crepes, wraps and rolls you can make at home. She lives in the Netherlands with her husband and two children.

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