Difference between revisions of "Cake"

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Cake is a desert food usually consisting of bread, sugar, eggs, and other ingredients added for various flavors. The Egyptians made honeycakes, and the Ancient Greeks had "plakous", which were emade of honey and nuts.

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-When, after an individual he's already consumed a sufficiently sized, and ineffably satisfing meal, he desires something extra-special which he doesn't really need, something for dessert;  he will find it neccesary to create a confection unlike any other previously concevied food.
+'''Cake''' is a desert food usually consisting of [[bread]], sugar, eggs, and other ingredients added for various flavors. The [[Egyptians]] made honeycakes, and the [[Ancient Greece|Ancient Greeks]] had "plakous", which were emade of [[honey]] and [[nuts]].
-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.
+[[Category:Food and drink]]
-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 person 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 people 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.
-'''References'''
-Cake Stats[http://www.census.gov/epcd/ec97/industry/E311813.HTM]

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