num_pages: 128
description: Whats your favorite cookie (or biscuit for any British baking show buffs)? Chocolate chip ginger spice or Oreo? Oatmeal-and-raisin black-and-white digestive or florentine? Or do you just prefer the dough? Our choice biscuits and cookies are as diverse as the myriad forms and flavors these chewy treats take and well they should be. These baked delights have a history as rich as their evidence of biscuit-making dates back to around 4000 BC.In Biscuits and Cookies  Anastasia Edwards explores the delectable past of these versatile snacks from their earliest beginnings through Middle Eastern baking techniques to cookies of Northern Europe in the Middle Ages and on into the New World. From German lebkuchen to the animal cracker (more than half a billion of which are produced each year in the United States alone) from brownies and sugar cookies in the United States to shortbread and buttery tea biscuits in the United Kingdom to Anzac and Girl-Guide biscuits in New Zealand and Australia this book is crammed with biscuit and cookie facts stories images and recipes from around the world and across time. And theres no need to steal from the cookie jar.
language: English
title: Biscuits and Cookies: A Global History
publisher: Reaktion Books