Review
"'Do play with your food' instructs the author of this inventive, informative and thoroughly engaging work which feeds our hunger for desserts with far more than recipes. Combining history with science, folklore with reportage, Fran Gage explores the four building blocks of her baker's craft with the delight of a writer and scholar, who knows that knowledge is a form of play as satisfying as Peppermint Lollipops and Apricot Tarte Tatin."
--Betty Fussell, author of "My Kitchen Wars"
"These stories about sugar and almonds and eggs and butter are fascinating. They are love stories and mysteries and histories and travelogues. And the recipes are a joy -- and very delicious."
--Maida Heatter, author of "Maida Heatter's Book of Great Desserts"
"Reading Gage is absolutely delicious."
--"Saveur"
