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5. Cake: An Early Modern Chronicle of Trade, Technology, and Exchange by Madeline Bassnett; Andy Crow; Julie A Fisher; David B Goldstein; Rebecca Laroche; Jennifer Munroe; Hillary M Nunn; Hillary Nunn; Melissa Schultheis; Margaret Simon; Edith Snook; Amy L Tigner; Rob Wakeman; Katherine Walker is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is 5. Cake: An Early Modern Chronicle of Trade, Technology, and Exchange about?

To consider cake as a field of study or even as a case study seems a bit of a sweet indulgence, given that cake is hardly fundamental to the quotidian needs of good nutrition or a good meal. Rather, as Sir Toby indicates to the puritanical Malvolio, cake is (like ale), something that is part of revelry and celebration-a luxury. Yet, if we consider its history from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries (and beyond), cake provides a narrative of Europe's engagement with global exploration, colonization, and trade; the development of chemistry and technology; and the illusive networks and communities of recipe exchange. Thus, to study cake is to study culture, with its political, economic, technological, and artistic complexities.

Author

Madeline Bassnett; Andy Crow; Julie A Fisher; David B Goldstein; Rebecca Laroche; Jennifer Munroe; Hillary M Nunn; Hillary Nunn; Melissa Schultheis; Margaret Simon; Edith Snook; Amy L Tigner; Rob Wakeman; Katherine Walker

Publisher

Amsterdam University Press (Bibliovault) : Amsterdam University Press

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9789048552368