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Sweets : A History of Candy
Sweets A History of Candy
Author: Tim Richardson
A journey into the heart of sweetness. — Humans are all, secretly or openly, obsessed with sweet things-and we always have been. The Aztecs mixed chocolate with blood in sweet libations to their gods; Saladin entertained Richard the Lionheart with exotic sherbets and sugared jellies; Victorian sweets magnates built the towns of Bournville and Her...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781582342290
ISBN-10: 1582342296
Publication Date: 11/16/2002
Pages: 288
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Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Book Type: Hardcover
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OpalCupcake avatar reviewed Sweets : A History of Candy on + 7 more book reviews
very dry and not as sweet as you would hope. Studies more on English candies than candies of the whole world.
reviewed Sweets : A History of Candy on + 347 more book reviews
More of a global focus than (the American) "Candyfreak" - gets kind of bogged down in historical detail, but rallies at the end for a view of "sweets around the world".


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