Preface

This book is dedicated to my wife Leslie, daughter Lauren, and son Chad, whose unfailing patience, support and good humor have made the process of building this book all the sweeter.

“THERE ARE THREE FINE ARTS: SCULPTURE, PAINTING, AND ORNAMENTAL PASTRY-MAKING, OF WHICH ARCHITECTURE IS A BRANCH.”

Pierre Simon Fournier (1712-68), the most famous member of a French family of typographers, was a man of many parts: type cutter, ornament designer, music publishing innovator, inventor of the point system of type measurement—and pastry cook.