The diversity of the world's cakes are represented for the first time in
one thoroughly researched volume. The amateur baker is taken on a
journey across the continents visiting Cote d'Ivoire, Libya, Finland,
Hungary, Azerbaijan, India, Cambodia, Papua New Guinea, United States,
Colombia, and many more countries along the way.
Working on the premise that every culture must have a favorite cake,
author-baker Anna Weston started researching the wonders of baking in
corners of the globe that she's not likely to visit in the flesh. She
soon discovered an amazing richness of cakes and found herself
investigating cakes and delicacies that are well beyond the scope of
most other books about baking--let alone her mother's fund of knowledge.
With all tastes and occasions catered for, the recipes have been fully
tested in a domestic kitchen and feature sumptuous photographs. The book
includes a number of vegan and wheat- and gluten-free recipes. These are
marked in the contents list and in the recipes.
Anna Weston is the office manager at New Internationalist. She has
been an avid cake baker for many years, taking great pleasure in
adapting recipes to create new flavors and then trying out the results
on her family and colleagues. She is passionate about getting the
message across that baking is not just for the experts and that, all
over the world, delicious cakes have always been produced in domestic
kitchens with rudimentary equipment and ingredients.
