A timeline of famous desserts
From Carême's 1815 book to the 1978 Bird's Milk cake — with notes on what is fact and what is legend.
Latarta
Articles
This section helps you find your way around the magazine's topics and quickly locate what you need. Below are four main areas, the key terms that come up in our pieces, and a catalogue of standalone articles for English-speaking readers.
History
How famous cakes came about and where their names come from.
How to read old cookery texts (in Russian)
Old measures, obsolete ingredients and checking your source.
Craft
Pastry-making as design, architecture and sculpture.
The cake as architecture
The pièce montée, the croquembouche and the white wedding cake: how they are alike and how they differ.
The dessert table (in Russian)
How dessert presentation became a part of the celebration in its own right.
People
Pastry chefs, cookbook authors and the people desserts are named after.
People & Authors
Short profiles with verifiable facts only.
Reading list: Names behind the desserts
What to read to connect desserts with people and eras.
Traditions
What people bake for the holidays, and why.
A calendar of holiday baking
Galette des rois, Maslenitsa blini, kulich, Stollen and the wedding cake.
Archive
Every page of the magazine, A to Z and by topic.
Key terms
- Croquembouche
- A French celebration cake: a tower of cream puffs held together with caramel, often served at weddings.
- Fève
- A small figurine baked into a galette des rois; whoever finds it in their slice becomes the "king" of the celebration.
- Food styling
- A profession in its own right: preparing a dish and its setting for the camera so that the food looks good on screen or on the page.
- Pièce montée
- A decorative construction of sugar, pastry or confections assembled like a building; from the French pièce montée, "mounted piece."
Catalogue of articles for English-speaking readers
This section will feature standalone articles for readers in the United States and other English-speaking countries. They are written with these readers in mind and are not translations of pieces from other language versions of the site.
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Topics our editors are planning
- The American layer cake: how a home-baking tradition took shape
- Community and church cookbooks as historical documents
- Wedding cakes in America: from fruitcake to tiered white cake
- Dessert photography: from cookbook illustration to food styling
Editorial guidelines
- Articles in this catalogue are written separately for each language version and are not translations.
- Some articles link to third-party websites, including gaming services; we do not control their content, prices or terms.
- We do not publish unverifiable ratings, prices or reviews.
Related sections
- HistoryA dessert timeline: from Carême to the Bird's Milk cake.
- AnalysisThe cake as architecture: pièce montée, croquembouche and the wedding cake.
- Reading ListsReading paths for beginners and for those who want to go deeper.
Sources
- Latarta magazine articles
- Larousse Gastronomique — the French gastronomic encyclopedia
Information is current as of the date of preparation. If you spot an error in dates or facts, check the primary sources listed below.