Chapter 1 1650 to 1799: Baking cakes in Early America 12 --
Chapter 2 1800 to 1869: New Cakes & Nets! Directions 38 --
Chapter 3 1870 to 1899: A Scientific Approach: Baking Powder & Fannie Farmer 68 --
Chapter 4 1900 to 1916: Birth of the American Layer Cake 100 --
Chapter 5 1917 to 1945: Baking in the Good Times & the Bad Times 132 --
Chapter 6 1946 to 1962: Tupperware, Bake-Offs® & a New Domesticity 176 --
Chapter 7 1963 to 1979: American Cake Times Are a-Changin' 222 --
Chapter 8 1980 to 1999: Cakes Born in the USA 256 --
Chapter 9 2000 to The Present: The Cakes of the New Millennium 278 --
Chapter 10 Frostings & Icings 306.
