Learn to COOK - Bittersweet: Recipes and Tales from a Life in Chocolate
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Manufacturer: Artisan
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.6374
EAN: 9781579651602
ISBN: 1579651607
Label: Artisan
Manufacturer: Artisan
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 384
Publication Date: 2003-11
Publisher: Artisan
Studio: Artisan
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Editorial Reviews:
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It is hard, today, to imagine a time when the word bittersweet was rarely spoken, when 70 percent of the chocolate purchased by Americans was milk chocolate. Today's world of chocolate is a much larger universe, where not only is the quality better and variety wider, but the very composition of the chocolate has changed.
To do justice to these new chocolates, which contain more pure chocolate and less sugar, we need a fresh approach to chocolate desserts—a new kind of recipe—and someone to crack the code for substituting one chocolate for another in both new and classic recipes. Alice Medrich, the "First Lady of Chocolate," delivers.
With nearly 150 recipes—each delicious and foolproof, no matter your level of expertise—BitterSweet answers every chocolate question, teaches every technique, confides every secret, satisfies every craving. You'll marvel that recipes as basic as brownies and chocolate cake, mint chocolate chip ice cream and chocolate mousse, can still surprise and excite you, and that soufflés, chocolate panna cotta, even pasta sauces can be so dramatically flavorful.
For the last thirty years, Alice Medrich has been learning, teaching, and sharing what she loves and understands about chocolate. BitterSweet is the culmination of her life in chocolate thus far: revolutionary recipes, profound knowledge, and charming tales of a chocolate life.
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Summary: Amazing -even for a novice
Comment: In another life I will be a pastry chef but for the time being I fulfull this fantasy with this book. I have read and baked my way through approximately half the receipes in each section. I love reading through Alice's life as it relates to baking, creating, and experimenting with chocolate. If you love chocolate and are willing to put the time and energy into these creations you won't be disappointed. Some of the skills, like making the fans, I'm still working on but I can't say I've been disappointed in anything I've made. It has been a fabulous journey and I look forward to the creations I've yet to make.
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Summary: amazing
Comment: I bought this book for my chef boyfriend, he also does a lot of pastry work as a part of his everyday job, and as we leafed through it together, I have to say I was really surprised. I ordered the book mostly thanks to the comments from other readers (which were favourable), but only when I starded reading the book, I realized just how "pro" it is. I work as an editor for a food magazine, so I will not easily say that something is great if it really, really isn't. The book is very educational, starting from the basic ingredients and technics, followed by recipes which can easily become classics, and I believe they will, all the way to the presentation ideas which are timeless.
I am very satisfied with this purchase, and this is a book which you will always find yourself returning to. Whenever you need inspiration or get stuck. Very good work.
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Summary: Great read...disappointing taste
Comment: Alice Medrich writes with charm, passion and intelligence. Her descriptions of tempering chocolate or making ganache are thoughtful and encyclopedic. For the writing alone, this is a great book. But, oh, the recipes. Each one of the five or six I have tried has yieled uninspiring, bland results. The "Tiger Cake", a chocolate marble cake with olive oil and white pepper--attractive, interesting in theory, but bland and rubbery. The "Nibby Pecan Cookies"--likewise bland. I could go on...but the short story is that if you like assertive flavors that are rich and satisfying, well, this author isn't for you. And that's why I give it such a low rating...because honestly, no matter how well written, if a cookbook's recipes are poor, well, then what's the point?
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Summary: Bittersweet
Comment: This is an excellent chocolate dessert recipe book. A perfect book for the finest chefs.
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Summary: Great!!
Comment: I have used many recipes in this recipe book COUNTLESS times already. My family especially loves the bittersweet chocolate ice cream recipe and i have made that one alone many many times!!! The freezer is now the local gathering to see if more ice cream has been made.
A really great book; i enjoyed reading about her early history in the chocolate world and i HIGHLY recommend this book to EVERYONE!!
Jessica
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