Timothy G. Roufs Ph.D. - Sweet treats around the world: an encyclopedia of food and culture

Sweet Treats around the World

An Encyclopedia of Food and Culture

Timothy G. Roufs and Kathleen Smyth Roufs

Copyright 2014 by ABC-CLIO, LLC

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The publisher has done its best to make sure the instructions and/or recipes in this book are correct. However, users should apply judgment and experience when preparing recipes, especially parents and teachers working with young people. The publisher accepts no responsibility for the outcome of any recipe included in this volume and assumes no liability for, and is released by readers from, any injury or damage resulting from the strict adherence to, or deviation from, the directions and/or recipes herein. The publisher is not responsible for any reader's specific health or allergy needs that may require medical supervision or for any adverse reactions to the recipes contained in this book. All yields are approximations.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Roufs, Timothy G.

Sweet treats around the world: an encyclopedia of food and culture / Timothy G. Roufs and Kathleen Smyth Roufs.

pages cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-61069-220-5 (hard copy: alk. paper) ISBN 978-1-61069-221-2 (ebook) 1. FoodEncyclopedias. 2. Food habitsEncyclopedias. 3. International cookingEncyclopedias. I. Roufs, Kathleen Smyth. II. Title.

TX349.R598 2014
641.59dc23 2014005003

ISBN: 978-1-61069-220-5
EISBN: 978-1-61069-221-2

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This book is dedicated to the next generation of sweet treats enthusiasts around the world, especially Casey Pedro Roufs, Claire Kathleen Roufs, Eli Campbell Roufs, and Nora Elizabeth Roufs

Korea (North and South)

Mango Lassi (Sweet Mango Yoghurt Drink)

Talautu (Traditional Coconut Pineapple Sweet)

Mote Lone Yay Paw ("Round Snack Float on the Water" Rice Balls)

Pistachio Halva Dessert (Nut-Filled Pastry of Aleppo)

Everyone in the world loves sweet treats. We are hardwired to love sweets. But everywhere in the world, cultures fashion their wares in delightfully different ways to fulfill our human craving for sweets. In Sweet Treats around the World , we explore this myriad feast of sweets with an emphasis on an anthropological approach that focuses on foods in a holistic, historical, and comparative manner, in a survey of sweet treats worldwide, by country or region.

A work of this nature, encompassing as it does more than 100 countries, must, by necessity, rely on secondary sources and the help of many people. Two things should be said about that: First, a genuine heartfelt "thank you" goes to all of the people known and unknown who made such an adventure possible, and second, the methodology involved inherently makes it impossible to do in-person checks on all aspects of the materials. Vigorous attempts have been made to check and cross-check materials, and when possible native residents and other professionals have been asked to review the materials and contribute their favorite recipes. To the many who have done that, and have suggested helpful revisions and additions, we owe a great debt of gratitude, especially to Stanley E. Aschenbrenner, PhD (Greece); Saba Andualem (Ethiopia); Leonore Baeumler (Germany); Manish Basu (India, Scotland); Angela Batenburg (the Netherlands); Janet Benson (Intercontinental); Michael Burke (England); Jorge L. Castiblanco Calderon (Colombia); Kathy Cuddihy (Arabia); Srita. Flor Daz (Peru); Jonathan Darby (Wales); Karla Dudley (Canada); Martha Lorena Espinosa (Mexico); Tedulo Espinosa Victoria (Mexico); Martha Elena Felix Brasdefer (Mexico); Chad Gillard (Denmark); Ieva Saulite Gorrilla (Latvia); Christabel Smyth Grant (Ireland, Scotland); Alena Hankov (Czech Republic); Jennifer E. Jones, PhD (Jordan); Richiko Kamata (Japan); Ruriko Kamata (Japan); Takehito Kamata (Japan); Markta Kov, PhD (Czech Republic); Morris Levy, PhD (Belgium); Maggi Macleod (Scotland); Gabriella Olh (Hungary); Zoe-Elizabeth Sariyanni, PhD (Greece); Asnakech (Ethiopia); Carolyn Molloy (Australia); Edwin King Murphy (Australia); Srita. Luzmila Ojeda (Venezuela); Ben Pawson (Scotland); Barbara Heuberger Rose, PhD (Malta); John-Mark Roufs (Mexico); Claire Schmidt (New Zealand); Dmitrii Svitich (Russia); David Syring, PhD (Ecuador); Abhilasha Shrestha (Nepal); Neeru Shrestha (Nepal); Puja Kafle (Nepal); Mayssam Tamim (Arabia); Melissa Olson Varanasi (Norway, Sweden); Paul van Reyk (Sri Lanka); Nora Vicinska (Latvia); Anne Louise Vidgen (Australia); Gretchen Woodfield (Philippines); Clifford A. Wright (Turkey); Mai See Xiong (Kazakhstan; Hmong); and the staff at the Embassies of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, the Federative Republic of Brazil, and the Republic of Peru. We also owe our thanks to the many friends who contributed recipes to this volume. We gratefully acknowledge their delightful contributions with their recipes. We enjoyed the journey together, with our many friends, through this amazingly sweet world and are grateful that our grandchildrenCasey Pedro, Claire Kathleen, Eli Campbell, and Nora Elizabethwere willing to occasionally accept homemade sweet treats in lieu of our time. Thanks are also due to our wonderful editor Kaitlin Ciarmiello, Senior Acquisitions Editor, Geography and World Cultures, and Erin Ryan, Senior Coordinator, Editorial Operations at ABC-CLIO, to Sivakumar Vijayaraghavan, Copy Editor, for his insightful copyediting, and Sasikala Rajesh, Senior Project Manager, for her invaluable assistance, and to the equally wonderful staff of the University of Minnesota Duluth Library. While we are grateful for all of these important contributions, any responsibility for errors is our own. We apologize to the people of the many interesting cultures of the world whose delectable treats would simply not fit into a work of this size and nature. More information and additional recipes discussed in this volume are available online at http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/anthfood/SweetTreats.html.