A. Attention Material: Who believes cake is bad for you? Who thinks cake is good? B. Relevancy Material: A large portion of you in the audience tonight is probably unaware of the positive effects cake can have on us. Today, cake doesn’t exactly have a great reputation due to the negative commentary we hear in media outlets, typically concerning health and weight. C. Credibility Material: However, in my research, I have found a multitude of studies and statistics supporting my claim and the many benefits there are for the consumption of cake. D. Thesis & Preview: Contrary to popular belief, cake can be beneficial. Those benefits are cultural, economic, and health wise. << Transition: Let’s begin with Cakes relevance throughout time II. Body A. Main Point #1: …show more content…
Cake becomes the bad guy. The temptation into reverting back into old, bad habit that got you feeling like you needed to lose weight in the first place. b) Low carb diets are the most popular. You see the name on magazine, tabloids, movies, and tv. c) Somewhere along the way, Weight loss turned into the new meaning of healthy, which isn’t always the case. 2) Cakes history is fairly short, and sweet. a) Cake was considered a breakfast food; its main ingredients being milk, flour, sugar, eggs. It was a cost-effective meal that could be shared with the entire family. b) There is evidence of cakes existing in early civilizations, our idea of cake started up in 18th century. 3) Cake is a international constant. There are many traditions and religions that have different purposes and recipes for cake. a) Cake is a food of celebration, friendship, sharing, joy and grieving. It is served at birthdays, weddings, funerals, and with friends. In a time where we are divided by race, religion, politics and class, we could all connect over cake. << Transition: Now that we have discussed the importance of cake in culture, Let’s move onto the monetary
History shows the King Cake has its roots in Christianity; however, it can be traced back further to a particular ancient pagan Roman festival known as Saturnalia. Held within the Roman empire, Saturnalia was an ancient festival to honor Saturn, an agricultural deity who was said to have reigned over the world in the Golden Age. In those times, fava beans were thought to contain magic. Cakes were made to celebrate the harvest and, a “king of the day” would be chosen by using a fava bean hidden within a galette.
While Europe and the United States account for most chocolate consumption, the confection is growing in popularity in Asia and market forecasts are optimistic about the prospects in China and India (Nieburg, 2013, para 9). According to the CNN Freedom Project, the chocolate industry rakes in $83 billion a year, surpassing the Gross Domestic Product of over a hundred nations (“Who consumes the most chocolate,” 2012, para 3). If chocolate continues grow popular in Asia, it stands to become even more lucrative.
The movie, The Outsiders, starts with the Curtis parents on their weekly, Saturday evening drive to the baking store to buy some ingredients for their boys’ favorite Sunday morning, breakfast treat: chocolate cake. The Curtis boys love their chocolate cake for Sunday breakfast not only because they love it, but also because they appreciate how hard their parents have to work to save the monies necessary for the morsels that put smiles on their faces!
No one wants to be or feel like they are overweight, unhealthy, or unattractive. When someone in the general public looks in the mirror or steps on the scale, and they are not satisfied with what is being shown, one of the first ideas to bubble to the surface is dieting. There are so many dieting solutions out there and one of the most popular are the fad diets. Dieting should be about getting healthy and losing weight in a healthy way. Fad diets however, are about losing a lot of weight in a disproportionally short amount of time. Due to the loss of weight that the dieter wanted, when they reach their goal weight, they stop doing the fad diet and go back to their regular diet. This causes the weight that they shed to be put back on again in a disproportionally short amount of time, which is also just as unhealthy. This cycle of losing and gaining weight is only one of the many dangers of fad diets.
(Hostess’s lead agency Chiat/Day I.B.’s 1991–2 double-blind Behavior series’ videotapes recorded over 45% of younger consumers actually peeling off Ho Hos’ matte icing in great dry jagged flakes and eating it solo, leaving the low-end cake itself to sit ossifying on their tables’ Lazy Susans, film clips of which had reportedly been part of R.S.B.’s initial pitch to Mister Squishy’s parent company’s Subsidiary Product Development boys.)
The famous line, “Let them eat cake”, comes from the of the lady Marie Antoinette in which she grew up in a time period where she was not fit to live in. In the non-fictional book, Marie Antoinette, by Antonia Fraser, a mother named Marie Therese gives birth to a beautiful girl named Marie Antoinette. This girl grew up to be the queen of France, where she face situations that she could not solve. Her journey that led her to be queen of France was only for her to marry Louis XVI, but the consequence of this was that Marie Antoinette was not prepared to face the french politics. Also Antoinette was only part of this to create the Franco-Prussian alliances.
Probably some of the most pleasurable and enjoyable memories of a person has to do with sweets. When thinking back to birthdays, there is always the memory of the wonderful cake that mother beautifully made and decorated with frosting and glazes. A typical night out with dad can be transformed into a magical evening with a trip to the ice cream parlor. The end of a fantastic Thanksgiving dinner turns heavenly when a hot apple pie is brought to the table and topped with delicious, melting vanilla ice cream. A good wedding is never complete without the cutting of the splendid multi-level wedding cake, when the happy new couple gets to playfully shove and smear cake and white frosting into each other’s smiling faces. Everyone knows that as a child, the only good part about going to the dentist is getting the candy bar at the end of the visit. Why do some people get sick after eating too much suger? Some people do not even know that the abuse of sugar can lead to negative effects on your body. There is something strangely enjoyable and resplendent about the consumption of sugar. Why is it that sugar is so deliciously enjoyable and at the same time a food product that has many negative affects on people’s health?
Dieting. People who lose weight are often reinforced by positive comments from others and by their changing appearance. This may cause some people to take dieting too far, leading to an eating disorder.
Abraham and Mira warnes in 1988 that health educators and health professionals should weigh up carefully the benefits of weight loss against the risks of inducing psychological disturbances such as eating disorders and adverse physiological side effects such as dieting and severe weight loss…(37)(ajn).
Once upon a time in a magical place called greece cheesecake was born. Back then cheesecake was so cherished that it was served to athletes in the first olympics in 766 BC because it was a source of good energy. I don’t know about you but sign me up! And I don’t even like running but I would gladly fall on my face multiple times for cheesecake. But eating cheesecake is no simple task, if you want cheesecake you're going to have to follow 3 crucial steps; 1- The preparation 2- the consumption 3- The destruction. If not followed properly you will not fulfill the cheesecakes destiny and be a disgrace to all humankind, animalkind, and plant kind. The world did not work hard and long for you to eat cheesecake like an imbecile.
cakes among many other freshly made recipes. They have a special cookbook for all of the fancy
Any type of Christian (Western) food is acceptable. However the Wedding Cake is by far the most important and anticipated food.
Let’s face it, a good, creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people” said Audrey Hepburn and I agree. As we’ve settled more into the 21st century year after year , people come up with the coolest ideas on serving desserts. The biggest trend over the past few years is cupcakes. I once read that “desserts spelled backwards is stressed” and that’s exactly how I feel after a long week of chaos. What better to easy that then trying one of the new modern types of cupcakes or desserts. People are coming up with new and creative ways of satisfying that crave.
Now the ingredients you will need are cups of flour, granulated sugar, butter, milk, dark chocolate, chocolate milk and a teaspoon of baking powder, salt, vanilla, and a lot of eggs. You will need some more ingredients depending on how you wish to make your cake. Things you will need an oven, a microwave, a pan, a cake ring or springform pan, a butter knife, a baking sheet, mixing spoons, a measurement cup, a teaspoon, a bowl, and electric mixer.
Sweet tooth factor Market research indicates indulgence will always factor into bakery purchases, regardless of diet or health awareness, i.