Most comprehensive reference work on the idea of the sweet ever published, with entries on all aspects of sweetness, including chemical, technical, social, cultural, and linguistic.

Table of Contents

• Foreword
• Introduction
• Topical Outline of Entries
• The Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets
• A
• à la mode
• addiction,
• adulteration
• advertising, American
• agave nectar (or syrup)
• akutuq
• Alkermes, confection of,
• ambergris
• ambrosia
• American Sugar Refining Company
• ammonia
• ancient world
• angel food cake,
• angelica
• animal crackers
• animals and sweetness
• anthropomorphic and zoomorphic sweets
• aphrodisiacs
• Appalachian stack cake
• aroma
• art
• artificial sweeteners
• Athenaeus,
• Aunt Jemima
• Australia and New Zealand,
• Austria-Hungary,
• azuki beans
• B
• baba au rhum
• Baghdad,
• Baked Alaska
• Baker's
• baker's dozen,
• baklava
• banqueting houses
• bar cookies
• barfi (also spelled burfi),
• barley sugar
• Baskin-Robbins,
• Baumkuchen
• Bavarian cream
• bean paste sweets
• Beeton, Isabella (1836–1865)
• beignets
• Belgium,
• Ben & Jerry's
• benne seed wafers,
• betty
• Betty Crocker
• biofuel,
• bird's milk
• birth
• birthday cake
• biscotti
• biscuit de Savoie
• biscuits, British,
• black and white cookies,
• black bun
• Black Forest cake, or Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte,
• blancmange
• blown sugar
• boardwalks
• boiled sweets
• bombe
• bonbons,
• Boston cream pie
• The Boston Molasses Disaster
• Brazil
• breads, sweet,
• breakfast cereal
• brittle
• Brix (or °Brix or °Bx)
• brownies,
• bubble gum
• bubble tea
• bûche de Noël,
• buchty,
• buckle
• Budapest
• Buddhism
• buñuelo
• burnt sugar
• butter
• buttercream
• buttermilk
• butterscotch
• C
• cacao
• Cadbury
• café
• cake
• cake and confectionery stands
• cake decorating,
• cake mix
• Canada,
• candied flowers
• candied fruit
• candy,
• candy bar,
• candy canes
• candy corn
• candy dishes,
• candy hearts
• Candy Land,
• candy packaging
• cane syrup
• cannelé,
• cannoli,
• caramels
• cardamom
• Carême, Marie-Antoine (1783/4–1833),
• Carnival
• cassata
• cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz),
• caster sugar
• castoreum
• cavities
• celebration cakes
• charlotte
• Chase, Oliver (1821–1902)
• cheese, fresh,
• cheesecake,
• chemical leaveners
• chess pie
• chestnuts,
• chewing gum
• chiffon cake
• chiffon pie
• child labor
• children's candy
• children's literature
• chimney cake
• China.
• Chinese New Year,
• chocolate, luxury,
• chocolate, post-Columbian,
• chocolate, pre-Columbian,
• chocolate, single origin,
• chocolate pots and cups
• chocolates, boxed,
• chocolates, filled,
• Christianity
• Christmas
• churros
• cinnamon
• clafoutis
• cobbler
• cocoa
• coconut,
• coffee
• coffee cake,
• colonialism
• comfit
• competitions
• conching
• confection
• confectionery equipment,
• confectionery manuals
• confetti
• convent sweets
• cookie cutters
• cookie jars
• cookie molds and stamps
• cookies
• cooking irons
• Cool Whip
• cordials
• corn syrup,
• cornstarch
• cosmetics, sugar in,
• cotton candy,
• court confectioners
• Cracker Jack,
• cream
• cream pie
• cream puff
• crema catalana
• crème anglaise
• crème brûlée
• crème caramel
• crêpes
• crescent
• Crisco
• crisp
• croissant,
• croquembouche
• crostata
• cupcakes
• custard
• D
• dacquoise
• dairy
• Dairy Queen,
• dango
• Danish pastry
• dariole
• dates
• Day of the Dead,
• dental caries,
• dessert,
• dessert design
• desserts, chilled
• desserts, flambéed,
• desserts, frozen,
• dextrose
• diabetes
• Diwali
• Dobos torte,
• Dolly Varden cake,
• doughnuts
• dragées
• dried fruit
• drop cookies
• dulce de leche,
• dumplings,
• Dunkin’ Donuts
• E
• East Asia
• Easter
• éclair
• egg drinks
• egg yolk sweets,
• eggs
• Emy, M.,
• entremets
• epergnes
• Epiphany
• Escoffier, Georges Auguste (1846–1935),
• Eskimo Pie,
• Eton Mess
• evaporated milk
• extracts and flavorings
• extreme candy
• F
• fairs
• fantasy
• Farmer, Fannie (1857–1915),
• fermentation
• festivals,
• Fig Newtons,
• filo
• financier
• fios de ovos
• flan (pudím)
• flan (tart)
• floating island
• Florentines
• flour
• flower waters,
• fondant
• food colorings
• fools
• fortified wine
• fortune cookie
• Fourier, Charles (1772–1837),
• France
• frangipane
• fried dough
• Frisbie pie tins,
• fritters,
• frosting
• fructose,
• fruit
• fruit desserts, baked,
• fruit leather
• fruit pastes
• fruit preserves
• fruitcake
• Fry's
• fudge
• funerals,
• funnel cake
• G
• gag candy
• galette
• gastris,
• gelatin,
• gelatin desserts,
• gelt,
• gender
• génoise
• Germany
• Ghirardelli,
• Gilliers, Joseph (d. 1758)
• ginger
• gingerbread
• glacéed fruit
• glaze
• glucose
• Godiva
• golden syrup
• The Good Humor Man,
• granita
• grape must
• Greece and Cyprus,
• Gugelhupf
• guilds
• Guittard
• gulab jamun
• gumball machines,
• gummies
• gummy bears
• Guriev kasha,
• H
• Häagen-Dazs
• Halloween
• halvah
• hamantaschen
• hand pie
• Hanukkah,
• hard candy
• Haribo,
• Havemeyer, Henry Osborne (1847–1907),
• Hermé, Pierre (1961–),
• Hershey, Milton S. (1857–1945),
• Hershey's,
• Hinduism,
• Hines, Duncan (1880–1959),
• hippocras,
• holiday sweets
• honey,
• honeymoon
• horchata,
• Hostess
• Huguenot torte,
• I
• ice cream,
• ice cream cones
• ice cream makers
• ice cream socials
• icebox cake,
• icing
• Imperial Sugar Company,
• India
• insects,
• Iran
• Islam,
• isomalt
• Istanbul
• Italian ice
• Italy
• J
• jaggery
• jalebi
• jam
• Japan
• Japanese baked goods
• Jarrin, William Alexis (1785–1848),
• jelly
• jelly beans,
• jimmies
• Jordan almonds
• Judaism,
• jujube
• junket
• K
• King Cake
• kisses,
• Kolkata
• kombucha
• Kool-Aid,
• Korea
• Krispy Kreme
• kuchen
• Kugelhupf
• kulfi
• Kyoto,
• L
• laddu (also spelled laddoo),
• ladyfingers
• laminated doughs
• Latin America
• Latini, Antonio (1642–1692),
• lauzinaj
• layer cake
• lead, sugar of,
• leaf, gold and silver,
• Lebkuchen
• ledikeni
• legislation, historical,
• Leibniz Keks,
• lemonade,
• Lenôtre, Gaston (1920–2009),
• licorice,
• Life Savers
• Lindt, Rodolphe (1855–1909),
• Linzer Torte,
• liqueurs,
• literature,
• Little Debbie,
• Loft Candy Company
• lokum
• lollipops
• loukoumades
• lozenge,
• M
• M&M's,
• macarons
• madeleine
• Maghreb
• Maillard, Henri (1816–1900),
• malt syrup
• manioc
• manjū,
• manna
• maple sugaring
• maple syrup
• marmalade
• Mars,
• Marshall, Agnes Bertha (1855–1905),
• Marshmallow Fluff
• marshmallows
• marzipan
• mastic
• mead,
• measurement
• Médici, Catherine de (1519–1589),
• medicinal uses of sugar
• Mehlspeise,
• meringue
• Mexico
• The Middle East—
• The Midwest (U.S.)
• mignardise,
• military
• milk
• milkshakes
• Milky Way
• mince pies,
• miracle berry
• mithai,
• mochi,
• modaka,
• molasses
• molds, jelly and ice cream,
• mooncake
• MoonPies
• Morocco
• mostarda
• mousse
• mud pie,
• muffins
• mulled wine,
• munchies,
• N
• Nanaimo bar
• nanbangashi,
• Napoleon
• Native American
• Necco
• Nestlé,
• The Netherlands,
• neuroscience,
• New England (U.S.)
• New Orleans,
• New York City's
• New Zealand
• Niederegger,
• Nobin Chandra Das (ca. 1846–1925)
• nonpareils
• North Africa,
• Nostradamus (1503–1566),
• nougat
• Nutella
• nutmeg
• nuts
• O
• Oetker
• olfaction,
• Orange Julius
• Oreos,
• P
• The Pacific Northwest (U.S.)
• palm sugar
• pan di spagna
• pancakes
• pandanus,
• pandowdy
• panning
• pans
• Paris,
• Passover,
• pastel de nata
• pastila
• pastillage
• pastry, choux, or cream puff pastry,
• pastry, puff,
• A pastry chef
• pastry schools
• pastry tools,
• pavlova,
• payasam
• Peeps,
• pekmez
• pennets
• The Pennsylvania Dutch
• penny candy
• Persia,
• Perugina
• Peter, Daniel (1836–1919),
• petit four
• PEZ
• pharmacology,
• Philadelphia
• The Philippines
• pica
• pie,
• pie dough,
• pièces montées
• piloncillo
• piñatas,
• Pitts, ZaSu (1894–1963),
• placenta
• plantations, sugar,
• Plat, Sir Hugh (1552–1608),
• plated desserts
• The politics of sugar
• Pop Rocks
• Pop-Tarts,
• popping sugar
• poppy seed
• Popsicle
• Portugal,
• Portugal's influence in Asia
• pound cake
• praline,
• preserves
• pressed cookies
• Priapus
• profiterole
• proverbs
• psychoanalysis
• publications, trade,
• pudding,
• pulled sugar
• punch,
• Q
• qatṭā’if
• R
• race
• Ramadan
• Reese's Pieces,
• refrigeration
• religion
• Rigó Jancsi,
• rock
• rolled cookies
• Rombauer, Irma Starkloff (1877–1962),
• Rosh Hashanah
• rosogolla,
• rugelach
• rum,
• Russia
• S
• sablé
• saccharimeter
• saccharine
• Sachertorte,
• salon de thé
• salt,
• sandesh
• sanguinaccio
• sap
• Sara Lee,
• sartorial sweets
• sauce
• Scandinavia
• semifreddo
• servers, ice cream,
• servers, sugar,
• serving pieces
• sexual innuendo
• sfogliatelle
• shape,
• shave ice
• sherbet
• sherbet powder
• shortbread,
• shortcake
• shortening
• sitophilia
• slang
• slavery
• slump
• small cakes
• s'mores
• soda
• The soda fountain,
• sonker
• sorbet
• sorbitol
• sorghum syrup
• soufflé
• sound
• soup
• sour cream
• The South (U.S.)
• South Asia
• Southeast Asia,
• The Southwest
• Spain
• The Spanish-American War (1898)
• speculaas
• spices
• spirituality,
• sponge cake,
• spoon sweet
• sports nicknames
• springerle
• sprinkles,
• spun sugar
• Sri Ramakrishna
• stages of sugar syrup
• starch
• state desserts
• stevia
• sticky rice sweets,
• sticky toffee pudding
• Stohrer, Nicolas (1706–ca. 1781),
• stollen
• street food, ancient.
• streusel
• strudel
• sub-Saharan Africa
• Sucanat,
• sucket fork
• suckets
• sucrose
• sugar,
• sugar, biochemistry of.
• sugar, unusual uses of,
• sugar and health
• sugar barons
• sugar beet
• The Sugar Bowl
• sugar cubes
• sugar in experimental cuisine
• sugar lobbies,
• sugar painting
• sugar rationing
• sugar refineries
• sugar refining
• sugar riots
• sugar sculpture,
• sugar trade,
• Sugar Trust
• sugarcane
• sugarcane agriculture
• sugarplums,
• sugars, unrefined
• summer pudding
• A sundae
• Swedish Fish
• sweet and sour
• sweet meals,
• sweet wine
• sweetened condensed milk
• sweetness preference
• sweets in human evolution
• sweetshop
• Switzerland
• syllabub
• symbolic meanings
• T
• taffy
• tapioca
• tart
• tarte Tatin
• Tate & Lyle
• tea
• temple sweets
• Thailand,
• tiramisù
• toffee,
• Tootsie Roll
• torrone
• torte,
• tragacanth
• treacle
• tres leches cake
• trifle
• trompe l'oeil
• truffles,
• Turkey
• turnovers
• tutti frutti
• Twelfth Night cakes
• Twinkies,
• U
• The United Kingdom
• The United States
• upside-down cake
• V
• vacherin
• Valentine's Day,
• Valrhona
• van Houten, Coenraad Johannes (1801–1887),
• vanilla,
• varenyky
• vegetables and herbs,
• Venice,
• verrine
• Vienna,
• vinarterta
• The Vipeholm experiment
• vision,
• W
• wafers
• wagashi,
• wasanbon
• Weber, Johannes Martin Erich (1885–1961),
• wedding celebrations
• wedding cake
• The West (U.S.),
• wheat berries
• whisks and beaters
• whoopie pie
• Winnie-the-Pooh,
• X
• xylitol
• Y
• yeast
• yogurt
• Z
• zabaglione
• zalabiya
• zeppole
• zuppa inglese,
• Appendixes
• APPENDIX Films
• APPENDIX Songs
• APPENDIX Pastry Shops
• APPENDIX Museums
• Directory of Contributors