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New page: When, in the course of human events, an individual desires something extra-special which he doesn't really need, something for dessert, after he's already consumed a sufficiently sized, an...
When, in the course of human events, an individual desires something extra-special which he doesn't really need, something for dessert, after he's already consumed a sufficiently sized, and ineffably satisfing meal, he will therefore find it neccesary to create a confection unlike any other previously concevied food.
Cake is the product of five thousand years of people striving to make a delicious thing to eat which no one truly needs. Thus it is the very essence of human gluttony.
It is originally derived from [[bread]], only with different sweet things added to it. The [[Egyptians]] had honeycakes, the Greeks had "plakous"; the name came from the word for "flat". This also used [[honey]] and [[nuts]]. Cake gradually evolved to a smaller, sweeter, more expensive form of bread: bakers used only the finest ingredients avalible. If a man ate cake on a semi-regular basis it was a status symbol. You had to be a rich man.
With the [[Industrial Revolution]] ingredients became cheaper, and the common could indulge in Cake. Now cake is eaten pretty often <ref>1</ref> and in all sorts of flavors and sizes; and in many different countries. The freedom of excess is more accesible than ever before in human history.
[http://www.census.gov/epcd/ec97/industry/E311813.HTM]
Cake is the product of five thousand years of people striving to make a delicious thing to eat which no one truly needs. Thus it is the very essence of human gluttony.
It is originally derived from [[bread]], only with different sweet things added to it. The [[Egyptians]] had honeycakes, the Greeks had "plakous"; the name came from the word for "flat". This also used [[honey]] and [[nuts]]. Cake gradually evolved to a smaller, sweeter, more expensive form of bread: bakers used only the finest ingredients avalible. If a man ate cake on a semi-regular basis it was a status symbol. You had to be a rich man.
With the [[Industrial Revolution]] ingredients became cheaper, and the common could indulge in Cake. Now cake is eaten pretty often <ref>1</ref> and in all sorts of flavors and sizes; and in many different countries. The freedom of excess is more accesible than ever before in human history.
[http://www.census.gov/epcd/ec97/industry/E311813.HTM]