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Pancake : a global history / Ken Albala.

By:

Albala, Ken, 1964- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: EdiblePublisher: England : Reaktion, 2008Description: 127 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 21 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

1861893922
9781861893925

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

641.815 22

LOC classification:

TX749.5

Contents:

Introduction. What is a Pancake? -- 1. Comfort Food -- 2. Celebration -- 3. Street Food -- 4. Working-class Food -- 5. Fine Dining.

Review: "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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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	City Campus City Campus Main Collection	641.815 ALB (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		A378084B

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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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