DESSERT: A TALE OF HAPPY ENDINGS
Book ID/图书代码： 14932918C00016
English Summary/英文概要： Whether it’s a homemade strawberry shortcake in summer or a chef’s complex medley of sweets, dessert is the perfect ending to a meal. Most of us, even those who seldom indulge, have a favourite dessert. After all, sweet is one of the basic flavours and we seem to be hard-wired to like it. Yet while everyone has a taste for sweetness, not every culture enjoys a dessert course at the end of the meal. And desserts as we know them - the light sponge cakes, the ice creams, the steamed plum puddings - are neither as old nor as ubiquitous as many of us believe. Jeri Quinzio traces the history of desserts and the way they, and the course itself, have evolved over time. The story begins before dessert was a separate course - when sweets and savouries were mixed on the table - and concludes in the present, when homely desserts are enjoying a revival, and as molecular gastronomists are creating desserts an alchemist would envy. An indulgent read, for all those with a curious mind and a sweet tooth.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 無論是夏季自製的草莓酥餅，還是廚師精心製作的複雜甜點，甜點都是一頓飯的完美收尾。 我們大多數人，即使是那些很少沉迷的人，都有最喜歡的甜點。 畢竟，甜味是基本口味之一，我們似乎天生就喜歡它。 然而，雖然每個人都喜歡甜味，但並非每種文化都喜歡在餐後享用甜點。 我們所知道的甜點——輕質海綿蛋糕、冰淇淋、蒸李子布丁——並不像我們許多人認為的那麼古老，也不像我們想像的那麼普遍。
Jeri Quinzio 追溯了甜點的歷史以及它們以及甜點本身隨著時間的推移而演變的方式。 故事開始於甜點成為一道菜之前——當時甜點和鹹味食物混合在餐桌上——結束於現在，家常甜點正在復興，分子美食家正在創造煉金術士羨慕的甜點。 對於所有有好奇心和愛吃甜食的人來說，這是一本令人沉迷的讀物。(Zoe)
Awards/获奖情况："Dessert is a perfectly delightful romp through the history of puddings and cakes and custards, everything from syllabubs to strawberry ice cream. Bring a big spoon."--Ken Albala
About the Author/作者介绍： Jeri Quinzio 是《布丁》(Pudding)（Reaktion，2012 年）和《糖與雪：冰淇淋製作史》(Sugar and Snow: A History of Ice Cream Making)（2009 年）的作者，該書榮獲 2010 年 IACP 烹飪歷史獎。
Jeri Quinzio is the author of Pudding (Reaktion, 2012) and Of Sugar and Snow: A History of Ice Cream Making (2009), which won the 2010 IACP Culinary History award.
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