Sweet!
The Delicious Story of Candy
Toronto : Tundra Books, [2007]
Format: Book
Description: 64 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Through time and across continents, stories of sweets and their inventors intrigue and entertain us. Learn about primal sweets -- from honey, sweet milk, and nuts to sugar candy, chocolate, and "sweet" stories of success.
Sweet! The Delicious Story of Candy takes us through history from 4,000 B.C., when islanders in Papua New Guinea cut sugarcane for its sap, and 2,600 B.C., when the first-known beekeepers produced honey to embalm the dead, to 500 A.D., when the Chinese made pear and plum syrups from unripe fruit, and all the way through to the world's first chocoholics and modern-day candy factories.
From cravings to the scoop on ice cream, Ann Love and Jane Drake present a comprehensive and irresistible story of candy through the ages, complemented by a detailed timeline and playful illustrations from artist Claudia Dávila.
Sweet! The Delicious Story of Candy takes us through history from 4,000 B.C., when islanders in Papua New Guinea cut sugarcane for its sap, and 2,600 B.C., when the first-known beekeepers produced honey to embalm the dead, to 500 A.D., when the Chinese made pear and plum syrups from unripe fruit, and all the way through to the world's first chocoholics and modern-day candy factories.
From cravings to the scoop on ice cream, Ann Love and Jane Drake present a comprehensive and irresistible story of candy through the ages, complemented by a detailed timeline and playful illustrations from artist Claudia Dávila.
Contents:
How sweet it is!: Sweet memories -- Animal appetites: Sweet cravings -- Sweet ingestion -- Excretions, oozings, and saps -- Sweet country -- Primal sweets: Honey, honey -- Honey supernatural -- Sweet milk -- Fruity to gummy -- Maple sugar time -- Nuts! -- Gum daddies -- Sugar candy: Sugar plantation -- Sweet chemistry -- Medieval subtleties -- Sugary snippets: Series of fortunate events -- Jelly beans -- Scoop on ice-cream cones -- Penny candy -- Home sweet home -- Chocolate: World's first chocoholics -- Chocolate goes global -- Bean to bar -- Chocolate's good chemistry -- Chocolate perfection -- Daniel of Vancouver -- Sweet story of success -- Candy magic: Eye candy -- Mother's sweet and nut shop -- Author's note.
Subjects:
Candy -- Juvenile literature.
Candy -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Confectionery -- Juvenile literature.
Candy -- Juvenile literature.
Candy -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Confectionery -- Juvenile literature.
ISBN:
9780887767524
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
C FOOD Lov | Main (Downtown) | Garden Level, Children's NonFiction | In |
C FOOD Lov | Main (Downtown) | Available by placing a hold, Repository - Children's | In |
C FOOD Lov | Main (Downtown) | Available by placing a hold, Repository - Children's | In |