Wedding cakes and cultural history. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Simon Charsley.
• Authors: Charsley, S. R
• Contents: List of illustrations Foreword Preface 1. The British wedding cake in the late twentieth century 2. How distinctive is the British cake? 3. Cultural creation: myth, history and language 4. When the wedding cake was not yet and might never have been 5. Great cakes, plum(b) cakes and bride cakes 6. Confectionery and icing 7. The rise of the Victorian cake and its successors 8. Uses and their evolution 9. Meanings and interpretation 10. Towards a theory of cultural change? Postscript Notes Bibliography Index
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 392.5; Wedding cakes -- Great Britain -- History; Wedding cakes -- Great Britain -- Social aspects; Wedding cakes -- History; Wedding cakes -- Social aspects
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000653410; 9781000653403; 9781003321293
• Related ISBNs: 9781032342528
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