Sugar and Sweets

Whereas this is an encyclopedia, meant to be dipped in and out of at leisure, it is unlike any other I've seen. There are hundreds of illustrations including mouthwatering paintings by Wayne Thiebaud (a personal favorite), Andy Warhol, and Will Cotton, a handful of historical recipes, and more than 600 erudite essays by pastry chefs, neuroscientists, food historians, and chemists, about what has become a grand metaphor for human pleasure.

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