A History of Cake (Online)

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Taught by Sarah Lohman

Sarah Lohman is a culinary historian and the author of the bestselling books Endangered Eating: America’s Vanishing Foods and Eight Flavors: The Untold Story of American Cuisine. She focuses on the history of food as a way to access the stories of diverse Americans. Endangered Eating was a New York Times Editors’ Choice, and was named one of the Best Books of 2023 by Amazon’s Editors, Food & Wine, and Adam Gopnik on the Milk Street podcast. It was a finalist for the Nach Waxman Prize for Food & Drink Scholarship and winner of the Ohioana Library Book Prize for Nonfiction. Lohman’s work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and NPR. Lohman has lectured across the country, from the Smithsonian Museum of American History in Washington, DC to The Culinary Historians of Southern California

 

 

$10
Tuesday, March 24, 7:30-8:45pm Eastern Time via Zoom

Location: Online Class

This is a live, online talk via Zoom. 

What did cake look like before sugar and wheat flour was universal? Who was the first person to sing "Happy Birthday"and blow out the candles? How did technology affect the look and texture of our cakes -- and what exactly is icing versus frosting?

In this online talk, Sarah will answer these questions and more, exploring imaginative recipes along the way, during this timeline of the evolution of cake.

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