Example sentences for: marzipan

How can you use “marzipan” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Some things are strangely delicious, such as the salsa-and-couscous chicken and the Lemon-Almond Pound Cake, which is essentially baked marzipan dough.

  • Among the pastries and cakes which travel best are Lebkuchen (gingerbread), Spekulatius (spiced Christmas cookies), and marzipan.

  • That delirious transcript is part of the story of the triumph of refined sugar over old-fashioned honey that takes up almost half of Sidney Mintz's new book, Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom: Excursions Into Eating, Culture, and the Past . Mintz, an anthropologist at Johns Hopkins University and author of Sweetness and Power (a more detailed look at sugar and its meaning), also explores other topics, ranging from the broader relationship between political power and food to more idiosyncratic excursions such as the chapter entitled "Color, Taste, and Purity: Some Speculations on the Meanings of Marzipan."


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