Icelandic Cake Fight: History of an Immigrant Recipe

This article explores the history of vínarterta, a striped fruit torte imported by Icelandic immigrants to North America in the late nineteenth century and obsessively preserved by their descendants today. When roughly 20–25 percent of the population of Iceland relocated to North America between 187...

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Published in:Gastronomica
Main Author: Bertram, Laurie K.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: University of California Press 2019
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/gfc.2019.19.4.28
http://online.ucpress.edu/gastronomica/article-pdf/19/4/28/394701/gfc_2019_19_4_28.pdf