If you’re into the history of desserts, here’s another YouTube video for you! This is yet another example of how the foods we eat everyday have a fascinating history behind them and we tend not to think about that history while gobbling them down. And I don’t know about you guys, but Jackie O’s creme…
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The Japanese Tiramisu Boom of 1990-1991, Part 3: The End of the Trend
(Part one of this blog post series can be found here and part two here.) The Death of the Tiramisu Craze The tiramisu phenomenon died a relatively quick death. Strangely enough, the publication that helped create it helped kill it off. In 1991, tiramisu was officially “dethroned” by women’s cosmopolitan magazine Hanako as the “New…
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Dessert Decadence: A Quick History of Tiramisu (9/29/20 YouTube Video)
If the current blog post series on the tiramisu fad in Japan during the ’90s isn’t enough to satisfy your appetite for reading material on tiramisu, here’s today’s YouTube video for you: A quick history of tiramisu! This isn’t anything too in-depth, but hopefully you’ll know a lot more about this delicious dessert and its…
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