Sweet! : the delicious story of candy

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Title:

Sweet! : the delicious story of candy

Author:

Love, Ann.

ISBN:

9780887767524

Publication Information:

Toronto : Tundra Books, c2007.

Physical Description:

64 p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.

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.

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The history of candy and sweet foods.

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Searching... Stillwater Public Library	J 641.853 LOV	Searching... Unknown

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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.

Author Notes

Ann Love and Jane Drake are sisters and co-authors who have shared a life-long interest in the environment and the wild. Together they are the authors of many award-winning books including The Kids Winter Cottage Book , Snow Amazing , Cool Woods , and Trash Action . The have been shortlisted for numerous awards including the Red Cedar Award, the Norma Fleck Award, the Hackmatack Award, and the Silver Birch Award. Ann Love is one of the founding members of Pollution Probe. Both Jane and Ann are married with three children each and live in the Toronto area.

Claudia Dávila is a yoga-happy, food-loving, storm-cooking designer and illustrator (born in Chile) with a love for recipe-swapping. She was an avocado tree in her past life, feeding the perfect substance to all with love and a dash of salt.

Reviews (3)

School Library Journal Review

Gr 4-7-This history of things sweet and sugary is a yummy feast. The prose is chatty and inviting. Color cartoon illustrations show multiethnic people in the process of making or enjoying everything from honey to ice cream to cotton candy (called candy floss here) to jelly beans and chocolate. A time line from around 6000 B.C.E. through 2006 runs along the bottom of the pages. Throughout the time line, tooth decay and other sugar-related problems are mentioned. For example, in England in 1674, a physician connected sugar consumption to diabetes. And in 1978, in the U.S., an accused murderer used the "Twinkie defense" at his murder trial-he did it because of too much sugar. There are great explanations of such matters as the history of honey production and the chemistry of sugar. The absence of an index is a drawback for reports. Another sweet history of candy is Ruth Freeman Swain's How Sweet It Is (and Was) (Holiday House, 2003). Sweet! is one tasty treat.-Anne Chapman Callaghan, Racine Public Library, WI (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Horn Book Review

Beginning with the biological appeal of sweets, this book moves into subdivided sections on ""primal sweets,"" ""sugar candy,"" chocolate, and ""candy magic."" The lively prose presents solid facts, and cartoon illustrations further enliven the text. A running timeline gives noteworthy international candy-related events and discoveries from 6000 BCE to 2006 CE. Although references are missing, an authors' note describes Love and Drake's research. (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. All rights reserved.

Booklist Review

Situated above a running time line marking developments in sweets (and also in dentistry), Love and Drake's text lightheartedly retraces historical highlights in the transformation of bee barf, mammal secretions, aphid poop, stem sap, root pulp and bean fat into an array of yummy confections--from ancient Egypt's marshmallows to modern fudge, gummy worms, and chocolate-chip cookies. Maintaining an international view by describing distinctive treats popular in various regions of the world, and noting that children often dislike candy from elsewhere, the authors cover processes and ingredients and pause for quick visits to a jelly-bean factory, a chocolatier, and a private kitchen before finishing with a mouthwatering trip to a candy store. Cartoon illustrations of people making or eating sugary goodies add colorful visual notes to this lively\b alternative to Ruth Freeman Swain's more piecemeal How Sweet It Is! (2003). --John Peters Copyright 2007 Booklist

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