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Ice Cream: The Delicious History - Hardcover

Powell, Marilyn

 
9781585677979: Ice Cream: The Delicious History
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1585677973 ISBN 13: 9781585677979
Verlag: Overlook Books, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

In this delicious story of ice cream, we are taken on an exotic journey for the old world to the new, from ice harvesting in ancient China to birthday celebrations in the age of Louis XIV to ice cream cones painted by Andy Warhol in the twentieth century. It’s a story filled with history, adventure, myth, and intriguing facts about ice cream. Did you know that Scots believed ice cream parlors were dens of iniquity? Or that there are more than seven hundred flavors and that the flavor you prefer expresses your personality?

In all its many forms, ice cream has become one of the oldest, most popular, and most democratic of pleasures, "The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream," wrote the poet Wallace Stevens. A wonderful surprising, entertaining, and intelligent book, Ice Cream is about the dessert itself and how we have come to regard it. As Marilyn Powell reveals, ice cream is the dessert of memory, a perfect food for the imagination. Containing illustrations, anecdotes, and famous recipes, Ice Cream will delight ice cream lovers around the world.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Marilyn Powell has taught at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York. An award-winning writer, broadcaster, and producer, her work has been published in Saturday Night, The Canadian Forum, and Books in Canada. Her short stories have appeared in Toronto Short Stories and Aurora III. Powell has a Ph.D. in English literature from Harvard University.

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From ice harvesting to gelato, to the origin of the sundae and the ice cream soda, to Baked Alaska (first called "Alaska, Florida" of all things) and ice cream bombes, Powell mixes together everything ice cream for a sweet, breezy blend of food history, personal anecdote and cookbook. Few readers will finish this volume without wanting to down a double-scoop waffle cone, but as there's little history here that's new, it may also leave them hungry for further reading. The story of Aunt Sallie Shadd, "a former slave from Wilimington, Delaware who was famous among the free black population there as the inventor of ice cream," is just one that will send folks off to the library in search of more. Though charming and light-hearted, Powell's joviality can veer into television host vernacular when she pushes too hard ("If you're getting the impression that Paris was a hub of ice-cream activity, you're right!"). Despite a few flaws, however, connoisseurs should enjoy this refreshing treat, just in time for summer. Illustrations.
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Verlag
Overlook Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2006
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1585677973
ISBN 13 
9781585677979
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Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
256
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