[Sca-cooks] Two Books on Sweets

[johnna holloway]

Here are a couple on sweets--

A King's Confectioner in the Orient: Friedrich Unger, Court Confectioner 
to King Otto I of Greece
by Friedrich Unger
ISBN: 0710309368 Subtitle: Friedrich Unger, Court Confectioner to King 
Otto I of Greece Translator: Merogullari, Renate Translator: Akmak, 
Maret Publisher: Kegan Paul International Ltd. September 2003 in the UK 
  208 pages. Also listed as being pub. in December 2003 in the USA.

Acc. to the publisher-
"This book, written in 1837 by Friedrich Unger, Chief Confectioner to 
King Otto I of Greece, is a remarkable window onto what is in many 
respects a lost world. Only a professional confectioner could have 
understood the techniques, equipment and ingredients sufficiently to 
leave a record so invaluable for recreating oriental confectionery.  His 
book is comprehensive and detailed, with recipes for 97 confections, 
some of which have disappeared entirely today. The light the book throws 
on relations between Turkish and European confectionery is of particular 
interest."

The author Mary Isin has translated over 150 books from Turkish to 
English. She began researching the history of Turkish cuisine in 1981, 
publishing a Turkish cookery book in 1985, and an annotated 
transcription of an Ottoman cookery book into modern Turkish in 1998. 
She lives in Istanbul and has two daughters.

This is apparently translated  from the German by Merete Çakmak and 
Renate Ömerogullari according to a publisher's note.

http://www.keganpaul.com/product_info.php?products_id=741&osCsid=15355addd75604ee634970ebaf4872fa

lists what the chapters include.
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Sugar-Plums and Sherbert: The Prehistory of Sweets
by Laura Mason is available again in paperback.
ISBN: 1903018285 Subtitle: The Prehistory of Sweets Publisher: Prospect 
Books ( August 2003  Paperback)

Johnnae llyn Lewis