Learn to COOK - The Chocolate Guide: To Local Chocolatiers, Chocolate Makers, Boutiques, Patisseries and Shops - Western Edition

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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 641.3374025 EAN: 9780976768296 ISBN: 0976768291 Label: TCB Cafe Publishing Manufacturer: TCB Cafe Publishing Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 192 Publication Date: 2007-12-03 Publisher: TCB Cafe Publishing Studio: TCB Cafe Publishing
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Editorial Reviews: Chocolate isn t just a guilty pleasure anymore. New research into its health benefits, and the emergence of single-origin and varietal chocolate, have lent the luscious sweet a cachet equaled only by fine wine. And as interest in fine chocolate grows, chocolate tours are also increasingly popular. For chocoholics who travel regionally or locally or just from an armchair this book is the ultimate West Coast tour, covering 13 cities and regions including San Francisco, Los Angeles, Denver, Las Vegas, Portland, Seattle, and British Columbia. Featuring more than 50 of the West Coast's top chocolate spots, The Chocolate Guide is essential reading for anyone looking for a new chocolate experience: this includes chocolate lovers (of course) but also food writers, journalists, and gift-givers looking for unique presents for their favorite cacao connoisseur. Along with informative chocolate profiles, this beautifully designed and illustrated coffee-table book includes articles on tasting, storing, dining, and cooking.
Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: A Beautiful Work of Chocolate Porn Comment: There's never been another book like this before, and it is lovely to look at. All the photographs make me want to dive into chocolate or get the web and contact the chocolatier to send me samples. The concept of making it a region by region edition is usefuly, because when you're in a certain area you know just where to go. Plus, there's no snobbery in the presentation of the chocolatiers, no ratings system, and no piece by piece deconstruction of what makes chocolate good. It's just a guide for those who love great and undiscovered chocolate. Customer Rating: Summary: Flawed but Useful Comment: What frustrates me most about this book is that it's a real good idea that was poorly executed. It is poorly organized and much of the information is incomplete. Don't expect to find contact information (e.g., phone numbers or web site addresses) for any but a small handful of featured companies. Instead, be prepared to spend some time on-line looking this information up. Why? It's also not clear why some companies are not only featured but are treated to multiple-page spreads of useless pictures. The room wasted on those pictures would have been more than enough to accommodate all of the information that is missing that should be there. Notwithstanding these objections, the book does contain a list of lots of different chocolatiers and chocolate makers you should probably know about - if you like chocolate. However, the editors and publishers seem to have gone out of their way to make it difficult to use the information they do provide. More Reviews