Dessert A Tale of Happy Endings【電子書籍】[ Jeri Quinzio ]

＜p＞Let’s face it: roast beef and potatoes are all well and good, but for many of us, when it comes to gustatory delight, we’re all about dessert. Whether it’s a homemade strawberry shortcake in summer or a chef’s complex medley of sweets, dessert is the perfect finale to a meal. Most of us have a favorite, even those who seldom indulge. After all, sweet is one of the basic flavorsーand one we seem hardwired to love.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Yet, as Jeri Quinzio reveals, 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ーthe light sponge cakes of ＜em＞The Great British Baking Show＜/em＞, the ice creams, the steamed plum puddingsーare neither as old nor as ubiquitous as many of us believe. Tracing the history of desserts and the way they, and the course itself, have evolved over time, Quinzio begins before dessert was a separate courseーwhen sweets and savories were mixed on the tableーand concludes in the present, when homey ．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る