The Best Book on Sweets for Everyone who Loves Them is Here.

 

                         Editor-in-chief: Darra Goldstein and Foreword by Sidney Mintz

 

• The most comprehensive reference work on the idea of the sweet ever published, with entries on all aspects of sweetness, including chemical, technical, social, cultural, and linguistic
• Beautifully illustrated with 157 images, including 2 stunning 16-page color inserts
• Edited by Darra Goldstein, a widely respected scholar and the author of several award-winning culinary books
• Foreword by the legendary anthropologist Sidney Mintz, author of Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History
• Four fascinating appendices, on sweets in cinema, the world's best pastry shops, sweet language in music, and museums dedicated to sweets
• Order yours, ask your librarian to order a copy, give a copy to your favorite pastry chef

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