Pancake : a global history / Ken Albala.
Material type: TextSeries: EdiblePublisher: England : Reaktion, 2008Description: 127 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 21 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1861893922
- 9781861893925
- 641.815 22
- TX749.5
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 641.815 ALB (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A378084B |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 113-115) and index.
Introduction. What is a Pancake? -- 1. Comfort Food -- 2. Celebration -- 3. Street Food -- 4. Working-class Food -- 5. Fine Dining.
"Pancake traverses over centuries and civilizations to examine the culinary and cultural importance of pancakes in human history. From the Russian blini to the Ethiopian injera, Albala reveals how pancakes have been a perennial source of sustenance from the Greek and Roman eras to the Middle Ages through to the present day. He explores how the pancake has gained symbolic currency in diverse societies as a comfort food, a portable victual for travellers, a celebratory dish and a breakfast meal. This book also features a number of delicious historic and modern recipes - tracing the first official pancake recipe to a sixteenth-century book."--BOOK JACKET.
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