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Sweet Invention: A History of Dessert
Michael Krondl
Sweet Invention: A History of Dessert
Chicago Review Press
October 2011
On Sale: October 1, 2011
400 pages
ISBN: 1556529546
EAN: 9781556529542
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Cooking / Food
From the sacred fudge served to India’s gods to the
ephemeral baklava of Istanbul’s harems, the towering sugar
creations of Renaissance Italy, and the exotically scented
macarons of twenty-first century Paris, the world’s
confectionary arts have not only mirrored social,
technological, and political revolutions, they have also, in
many ways, been in their vanguard. Sweet Invention: A
History of Dessert captures the stories of sweet makers past
and present from India, the Middle East, Italy, France,
Vienna, and the United States, as author Michael Krondl
meets with confectioners around the globe, savoring and
exploring the dessert icons of each tradition. Readers will
be tantalized by the rich history of each region’s
unforgettable desserts and tempted to try their own hand at
a time-honored recipe. A fascinating and rewarding read for
any lover of sugar, butter, and cream, Sweet Invention
embraces the pleasures of dessert while unveiling the
secular, metaphysical, and even sexual uses that societies
have found for it.
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