This Delicious Graphic Novel Gets to the Heart of Desserts
Childrens book? No so fast. “Yummy,” a bright, kaleidoscopic history of sweets by Victoria Grace Elliott, an artist and writer in Austin, Texas, delivers well-researched capsule histories of world events, back to ancient Egypt, as they pertain to ice cream, cake, pie, cookies and more. It explains the chemistry of leavening and the chilling action…