Sachertorte Sachertorte Sachertorte () is a specific type of chocolate cake, or torte, invented by Austrian Franz Sacher in 1832 for Prince Wenzel von Metternich in Vienna, Austria. It is one of the most famous Viennese culinary specialties. December 5th is National Sachertorte Day in the United States. Recipes similar to that of the Sachertorte appeared as early as the 18th century, one instance being in the 1718 cookbook of Conrad Hagger, another individual represented in Gartler-Hickmann's 1749 "Tried and True Viennese Cookbook" ("Wienerisches bewährtes Kochbuch"). In 1832, Prince Wenzel von Metternich charged his personal chef with creating a special dessert
Utilitarian cake-cutting them to equitable division. Utilitarian cake-cutting Utilitarian cake-cutting is a rule for dividing a heterogeneous resource, such as a cake or a land-estate, among several partners with different cardinal utility functions. The rule says that the cake should be divided in a way which maximizes the sum of the utilities of the partners. It is called "utilitarian" because it is inspired by utilitarianism. An alternative term is maxsum cake-cutting. Utilitarian cake-cutting is often not "fair"; hence, utilitarianism is in conflict with fair cake-cutting. Consider a cake with two parts: chocolate and vanilla, and two partners: Alice and George, with the