Book Description
Be healthy, eat well and indulge your sweet tooth.
Several years ago, registered dietitian Liz Pearson and home economist Mairlyn Smith developed The Ultimate Healthy Eating Plan.
This best-selling book provided guidance for optimal health and the prevention of diseases including cancer, heart disease and diabetes.
Ultimate Foods for Ultimate Health is a welcome follow-up book about disease-fighting powerhouse foods. The authors describe how often to eat these foods and in what quantities. Filled with great tips for eating on the run, dining out and snacking wisely, the book combines the 50 best recipes from the first book with 90 new ones all nutrition-packed and fabulous. Here are some examples:
- Orange avocado black bean salsa salad
- Jamaican spiced marinade for pork tenderloin
- Wild blueberry muffins with lemon-zest topping
- The ultimate healthy chocolate treat.
This is an eating plan that's smart and healthy -- and filled with delicious choices, including chocolate.
Customer Reviews:
The best nutritional advice.......2007-02-17
Double chocolate muffins are actually good for you! This recipe was worth the price of the book - I would recommend this book for everyone that cares about their health. There are wonderful healthy recipes that even the kids like.
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This affordable paperback on the ever--popular subject of chocolate is created for people with full and busy lives. Clear explanations on everything you should know about cooking and decorating with chocolate----for yourself or as gifts----are enhanced by dozens of detailed photographs. Step--by--step instructions and beautiful, full color photographs make this the perfect guide for the novice or seasoned choco--phile.
Customer Reviews:
Food for the gods..........2001-02-22
In "Ultimate Chocolate" you will be seduced into reading the story of chocolate. Did you know that chocolate grows in spindle-shaped pods that form on the Theobroma cacao tree? You will love reading about how chocolate is produces from the pods which reveal beans and then finally nibs which are used to make chocolate.
Patricia Lousada explains all the delicious details and then gives the secrets for selecting chocolates for your own home cooking. She explains how to successfully melt chocolate. There is detailed information on how to temper chocolate which is only needed for formal candy making.
Do you remember the first time you tasted chocolate eclairs or Belgium truffles? The pictures in this book will send you right to the kitchen. The step-by-step instructions help to turn the pictures into a reality. Adding a professional finishing touch to cakes is also easy when you can follow the step-by-step pictures.
Personalizing chocolate treats is easy when you know how to make chocolate curls, ribbons, flowers, leaves, baskets, boxes, cut-outs and curls. You can choose to make the simplest chocolate mousse or a wedding cake which will serve 100 guests.
Other recipes you will want to try include: Chocolate Pecan Pie, Chocolate Rum Fondue, Pecan Chocolate Fudge Cake, Austrian Sacher Torte, Chocolate Shortbreads, White Chocolate and Lime Mousse and a variety of Chocolate Sauces.
Delicious, decadent and visually satisfying. Enter the world of chocolate seduction.
~TheRebeccaReview.com
Heaven can wait!.......2000-11-06
A truly amazing collection of chocolate recipes! I have only tried 3 so far, but each one has been a great success. The book begins by explaining the origins of chocolate, history of chocolate, how it's made, etc., then moves on to explaining how to work with chocolate. There is also a fair amount of detailing and photography on making impressive chocolate decoration for your desserts, which is actually easy to prepare. The book offers recipies for pies, mousses, cakes, cookies, confectionary, ice creams, drinks, and sauces. I must warn you, though, that some recipes call for as much as 300 grams of butter, and some call for 3 cups of double cream. I tried them once and the results were delicious, but not worth the health hazard.
Nevertheless, the final results taste great and look great. One you should try if you buy the book: the Striped Cheesecake!
Its as good as it looks!.......1998-10-17
This is the ultimate book for chocolate lovers. It offers a wonderful history of chocolate and fabulous pictures. The recipes are easy to follow - you don't have to be a gourmet pastry chef to make these desserts! Even if you're not into cooking, this book is a feast for the eyes! The photographs make your mouth water!
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- Ultimate cookbook on chocolate
- A simply glorious dessert cookbook
- Simply superb!
- Lots of great recipes, but horrible index ruins it
- All chocolate lovers must have this book
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1001 Chocolate Treats: The Ultimate Collection of Cakes, Pies, Confections, Drinks, Cookies, Candies, Sauces, Ice Creams, Puddings, and Everything Else Chocolate
Gregg R. Gillespie , and
Peter Barry
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Pure Chocolate: Divine Desserts and Sweets from the Creator of Fran's Chocolates
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Most women already know that chocolate cures everything--and this glorious cookbook oozes with 1001 recipes guaranteed to satisfy chocoholics everywhere. Indulge yourself with such delights as Chocolate Cherry Truffle Pie, Chocolate Marshmallow Freeze, and a tasty assortment of cookies, sauces, ice creams, and just about anything imaginable that can contain a cocoa bean. Every recipe is accompanied by a full-color photograph--enough to make your jaw drop and your mouth water in anticipation of this chocolate feast. Happily, these recipes are quite simple to create, so you'll still have plenty of time left over for eating these angelic treats. --Naomi Gesinger
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From bite-sized tidbits to luscious drinks to sophisticated cakes and tortes, this extraordinary compendium of recipes provides 1001 great ways to indulge in the irresistible pleasures of chocolate. The ultimate fantasy fulfillment for chocolate-lovers,
1001 Chocolate Treats packs 3,000,000 sinfully delicious calories into one volume. And every one of them will satisfy the craving for chocolate that strikes all of us at one time or another.
Mouthwatering photographs capture every glorious chocolate temptation in rich, seductive color. And what temptations they are! Cookie-lovers will find brownies galore, old-fashioned favorites like chocolate-chip cookies and bars, chocolate rum bars, and chocolate macaroons, and delightful surprises like chocolate pfeffernuesse, toasted coconut cookies with chocolate chips, and white chocolate meringues. A 20-minute chocolate cake offers almost instant relief when nothing but a slice of cake will do; French silk pie, Black Forest cherry torte, dark chocolate cheesecake, bitter chocolate mousse are just some of the confections perfect for bringing an elegant dinner party to unforgettable climax; and easy recipes for puddings, ice creams, and dessert toppings—including hot fudge, chocolate peanut butter, Kahlúa cocoa, and other special sauces—make it easy to end even everyday meals on a high-note. A section on beverages features dozens of delicious possibilities for every time of day and every season of the year—from Mexican-style coffee to hot chocolate mocha to spiced hot cocoa to Brazilian iced chocolate and chocolate mint cooler. And for gift-giving (or family snacking), there's a host of recipes for fudge, truffles, brittles, drops, and other favorite candies.
1001 Chocolate Treats covers all the ins-and-outs of cooking with chocolate, including comprehensive information on the different types of chocolate and cocoas available in groceries stores and specialty markets, invaluable instructions on various ways of melting and tempering chocolate, and tips on baking and assembling cakes, pies, and tortes.
Customer Reviews:
Ultimate cookbook on chocolate.......2007-02-26
Great book. Amazing collection of recipes, 1001 to be exact. Some traditional some unique, all satisfying. A picture of each recipe. Highly recommended.
A simply glorious dessert cookbook.......2003-10-14
Compiled and organized by Gregg R. Gillespie, 1001 Chocolate Treats is a simply glorious dessert cookbook featuring virtually every imaginable way to create chocolate taste sensations. A "must-have" for true chocolate lovers, color photographs of each recipe enhance the no-nonsense instructions for preparing everything from Chocolate Rum Cake, to Almond Brownie Bars, Chocolate Pumpkin Pie, Black Forest Torte, and much, much more. Also very highly recommended are three other cookbook compendiums by Gregg R. Gillespie.
Simply superb!.......2002-12-12
I found this book absolute heaven. Out of all my cookbooks this one is getting tons of usage. The recipes are easy to follow and the pictures are the best. Probably the most extensive collection of chocolate recipes ever! Don't let this pass you by. Definitely worth the money!
Lots of great recipes, but horrible index ruins it.......2002-11-24
With over 1,000 recipes, this book is undoubtably the most extensive chocolate cookbook I've ever seen. You name it, it has it! But don't be surprised if you can't find the recipe you're looking for.
The index for this book is absolutely the worst I have ever seen in any book, because it only references ingredients, not the recipes themselves. It took me almost ten minutes to find a recipe for chocolate brownies, because I had to scan entire chapters from beginning to end until I found it. I can guarantee you that you will go insane trying to find a particular recipe in this book. That's why I gave it only three stars. It would have gotten five stars otherwise.
All chocolate lovers must have this book.......2002-11-15
I love chocolate and fess up so do you! This is a great book and if you are a novice or an experienced baker you will get rave reviews from all of the taste testers ( and there will be many ) when you make just about any of the recipes in this book.
Quite a few of my holiday cookies are about to be baked.
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- a great variety of chocolate cookies
- The Ultimate Chocolate Cookie Book
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The Ultimate Chocolate Cookie Book: From Chocolate Melties to Whoopie Pies, Chocolate Biscotti to Black and Whites, with Dozens of Chocolate Chip Cookies and Hundreds More
Bruce Weinstein , and
Mark Scarbrough
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Can you ever have enough chocolate? Not Likely!
Customer Reviews:
a great variety of chocolate cookies.......2007-07-27
This book has every imaginable kind of chocolate cookie that is worth making. So far, the recipes that I have tried make fantastic cookies. Perfect for both the everyday cookie baker and those who just need to make the occasional batch around the holidays.
The Ultimate Chocolate Cookie Book.......2007-03-10
There are some fantastic chocolate chip recipes in this book. They are yummy. My husband even made some of them.
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- Great, Lots of Information
- good reading
- Complete and compelling.
- This book has something for everyone.
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All About Chocolate: The Ultimate Resource for the World's Favorite Food
Carole, CCP Bloom
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Chocoholics beware; All About Chocolate will likely make you drool all over the pages until you can get your next fix of cocoa heaven. This is a mini-encyclopedia of chocolate history, terminology, trivia, and, of course, rich, chocolatey recipes. Initially taking the form of a dictionary, the book contains A-to-Z listings of chocolate expressions and general chocolate lore. Did you know, for example, that nacional is a variety of the forastero cacao bean found in Ecuador? When cultivated, it produces a wonderfully delicate type of cocoa. The book traces chocolate history right back to the 7th century, when the Maya migrated to the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico and established the first cacao plantations. We are then whisked through several centuries of chocolate evolution right up to modern times, when chocolate is undoubtedly one of the Western world's most craved treats. Happily for us, chocolate may even have some proven health benefits! Yes, really! That feeling of well-being when nibbling on a succulent piece of chocolate is more than mental. Endorphins contained within chocolate transmit feelings of euphoria to the brain--making everything seem good with the world. Plus, cocoa butter contains no cholesterol, so although chocolate isn't exactly slimming, it at least contains the right kind of fat! Enlightening us about chocolate festivals, chocolate factories, chocolate schools, chocolate organizations, and with recipes for Hot Fudge Sauce, Chocolate Pound Cake, French Chocolate Macaroons, and many more, All About Chocolate is a sweet delight. --Naomi Gesinger
Book Description
"It's not that chocolates are a substitute for love. Love is a substitute for chocolate. Chocolate is, let's face it, far more reliable than a man." —Miranda Ingram "I have met with few things more remarkable than the Chocolate which is the finest I ever saw." —John Adams, traveling in Spain in 1799 Hailed as "the food of the gods," exchanged in ancient marriage ceremonies, and proclaimed an aphrodisiac, chocolate has been loved around the world since its cultivation by the ancient peoples of Mexico as early as the seventh century. Here is the essential volume, including facts, fictions, festivals, recipes, and resources on the treat that drives many to obsession. All About Chocolate is the ultimate compendium of information to indulge the cravings of true fanatics.
- In the seventeenth century, not long after the bishop of Chiapas warned that anyone drinking chocolate during the service would be excommunicated, he died from drinking a cup of poisoned chocolate.
- Americans eat more chocolate now than ever before—an average of 11 pounds per person every year!
- The Aztec ruler Montezuma drank 50 cups of chocolate from golden goblets before visiting his harem.
Whether you're a true chocoholic, a trivia lover, or just looking for the best ways and places to enjoy this magical treat, All About Chocolate makes it easy for you to enjoy this alluring sweet to the fullest. Visit us online at www.mgr.com
Customer Reviews:
Great, Lots of Information.......2007-04-11
Wow, all my Internet research seems to be right here in one book!
Thanks!
good reading.......2000-03-19
I read my friend's copy of this book. Covers history of chocolate, chocolate around the world, locations of chocolate festivals and events in the USA, explains the different kinds of chocolate, chocolate terms (like bloom, tempering, etc...), chocolate recipes, and even shows listings on the web of where you can find chocolate information. I think it's an interesting book for this sort of general information
Complete and compelling........1999-09-26
Carole Bloom knows all about chocolate and is willing to share it. A compendium of fact and highly educated opinion about the world of chocolate. Dependable and indispensable. It even includes a chapter on other books about chocolate, including fiction, which is the only thing this book is not. In that realm, Bloom and I recommend BITTERSWEET JOURNEY, A Modestly Erotic Novel of Love, Longing & Chocolate.
This book has something for everyone........1998-10-26
This book has something for everyone about the world of chocolate. If you want to know more about chocolate history or how chocolate is made, it's here. If you want to know where to find the best chocolate in the world, it's also here. This book makes a great travel guide for chocolate afficionados. You can find where to learn more about chocolate and where the nearest chocolate festival or museum is. This book makes a great gift for your chocolate-loving friends and family, as well as a great gift for yourself. All the information and fun facts about chocolate are located in an easy-to-manage paperback book at a great price.
Book Description
What's the best-kept nutritional secret? It's okay to relax and indulge in a little chocolate! This health guide combines the latest scientific research on nutrition with out-of-this-world recipes that can be prepared in 30 minutes or less. The result is an inspirational guide to making tasty yet healthy fare (much of it kid-tested) such as Chicken with Mango and Apricots and Two-Bite Brownies.
Awards
- Independent Publisher Book Awards (US)
2003 - Heath/Medicine/Nutrition Category
Ultimate Healthy Eating Plan (Winner)
Customer Reviews:
EXCELLENT!!!!!.......2003-10-20
I own many nutrition books and this is my absolute favorite. I love this book and highly recommend it. It has a great 7 day meal plan for weight loss that is easy and delicious as well as tons of information on healthy living.
A wealth of health-conscious recipes.......2003-06-17
The Ultimate Healthy Eating Plan That Still Leaves Room For Chocolate offers a wealth of health-conscious recipes, as well as solid advice and meal plans for improved nutrition and balanced meal plans that allow room for favored luxury food items such as chocolate. Collaboratively written by Liz Pearson and Mairlyn Smith (credentialed experts in the fields of nutrition and the art and science of tailoring optimum meal plans), and including information about the latest research on foods ranging from flax and soy to red wine and green tea, The Ultimate Healthy Eating Plan is a superbly organized and presented culinary and healthy eating informational and reference resource for anyone seeking to improve the quality of their food intake.
UHEP should be in every home.......2002-12-05
If I could write a cookbook / lifestyle manual this is what I would want it to be. Very informative bands of information across the bottom of the pages in the front half of the book put all the bits and pieces of info that you have read before all in one place. The menu suggestions are great and all of the recipies work! Even the ones for high fiber muffins and loaves turn out well - the muffins are a good size not the small heavy ones that you sometimes get from "healthy, high fiber" recipies. Information on flax benefits is excellent.
You definitely need this in your library.
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There's a difference between a chocoholic and a chocophile, and Clay Gordon is decidedly in the latter category. It's not enough for him to simply love this rich indulgence; he is equally addicted to the finer points of choosing it, just as a wine aficionado enjoys researching different varietals and developing a taste for particularly fine ones.
In Discover Chocolate, Gordon opens a world that extends far beyond cookbooks and coffee-table books that feature assorted gooey shots. Yes, his primer is packed with more than a hundred gorgeous photographs of chocolate and truffles, but this is a guide that also includes a handy rating system, a field guide for discerning among different types and styles of chocolates, an overview of how cacao becomes chocolate (including maps of where cacao is grown), advice for pairing chocolate and wine, and, perhaps most important of all, how and where to shop for the best chocolate in the world.
A little knowledge can be a dangerous thing, and Clay Gordon is there to help you relish every drop of it, discerning why you like certain types but not others and generating a personal list of favorites. This is the book every true chocolate enthusiast has been craving.
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Smooth as velvet, luscious and a fragrance to die for, chocolate is indeed a luxurious dessert. Chocolate sensations leads us into the marvellous world of rich flavors and wicked delights. This book has beautiful recipes and straight forward practical information.
Customer Reviews:
Chocolate is Challenging.......2005-11-25
I have tried a few of the recipes and have had success with 3 out of the 4 recipes I tried. I actually made an error on the one that didn't turn out. I love the pictures and appreciate the advice given on working with chocolate.
Disappointing.......2004-03-22
While Warren Webb should be commended for his fabulous photographs, as a whole I found this book to be very frustrating and disappointing. I have tried three recipes from the book and all three failed. I retried one several times, and finally ammended the ingredients in order to make it work. I would not recommend this book, nor will I try any other recipes from it.
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- Chocolate Cakes That Taste Good
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Pamella Asquith's Ultimate Chocolate Cake Book
Pamella Asquith
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Chocolate Cakes That Taste Good.......2004-07-24
According to classic patisserie, there are 6 mixing methods for cakes (creaming, two-stage, flour-batter, sponge, angel food, chiffon; some of us would add 2 or 3 more, but this is a matter for a different day). As far as the book's author is concerned, there are only 2: leavened with egg foams (separated egg or whole egg), and leavened with chemicals (baking soda and/or baking powder). This book contains only those using eggs as the leavening agent (save for one: devil's food cake). On the good side, I liked the flavor of the cakes due to the lack of chemical leavening; on the down side, the cakes require that you vigorously beat eggs separated into whites and yolks, meaning you will need either a stand mixer or very strong arms. The best feature of this cookbook is that all recipes list weight and volume measurements. Criticisms not withstanding, this unassuming little book can be recommended highly (well, okay, the title is a little presumptuous, not to mention untrue).
It has plain (36), fruit and jam (38), nuts (14), liqueur (9), molded (11), and unique (20) recipes for cakes and associated components such as frostings. There are a few color photos, but these were done by a professional stylist and have nothing to do with the recipes or their instructions and are totally worthless. The chapter on nut cakes is especially interesting, as almost all the recipes use ground nuts and are flourless.
The recipe for simple genoise tells you to fold in flour while drizzling in the melted butter; beats me how one is suppose to do both things at the same time, as no details are given. Most professional recipes say fold in flour then fold in melted butter. Most of the recipes have a lower level of sugar compared to other cookbooks; this is sometimes, but not always a good thing. Interestingly, many recipes call for 8 inch cake pans rather than the standard 9 inch ones. The instructions for splitting cakes are inadequate, especially when the author expects you to split a half sheet pan cake in half horizontally. The author claims to have invented the cake batter mixing method, and this is largely true: most cakes use an unusual hybrid mixing method (a combination of separated egg sponge and modified creaming method). Once you master this method, virtually all other recipes are done exactly the same way (only a few cakes use whole egg sponge-black forest, pound, citrus, genoise, etc.). The bavarian creams for the charlottes would be better with creme anglaise rather than pastry cream. The recipes in the last chapter (unique cakes) are rather too facile and prone to failure.
The first third (74 pages out of a total of 239) is devoted exclusively to ingredients, equipment, and techniques. While it is a useful collage of information borne of several years of professional experience, this section is too brief and declamatory to be of much use to the inexperienced home baker. It is also randomly assembled and jumbled together, so you have to flip through all 70 pages to find anything; an index or detailed table of contents would be a great help. Although you can take issue with some of the information, it is by and large an excellent source of information for someone who knows his way around the pastry kitchen. Disappointingly, the description of folding is too brief, and the section on beating egg whites has a lot of advice, but not a specific procedure per se. The use of stale cake crumbs as an ingredient is good advice, but the recipes that specifically call for them are not indexed or tabulated anywhere; if had these crumbs to use, you would have to leaf through the whole book to find recipes that use them.
Customer Reviews:
FAR Better ones are on Amazon than this.......2006-12-19
This is an overpriced book of untested recipes that are shamelessly recycled/exchanged from many other books by writers France, and McFadden without even changing the same dreary photo or bad recipe. Such books by this duo include:
1. The cook's Encyclopedia of Chocolate
2. Chocolate Fantasies
3. Chocolate Ecstacy
4. Chocolate Cooking with the Worlds Best
This would not be such a bad thing, except the recipes in these author's books will rarely look as good as the pictures, and with the untested mishmash of ingredients, will not taste anywhere as good as they look.
The creations are made by professional food stylists, who sometimes add a bit more than is in the recipes...that's your first warning.
If you go so far as to bake or otherwise create these, you will have your 2nd and last warning...and then it's too late...
Keep looking on Amazon, and buy a book from someone who isn't out to make 20 books from the same 200 barely tested or completely untested recipes.
Be happy with your cooking, and try instead such goodies as:
Art of Chocolate by Gonzalez
Truffles, Candies, and Confections by Carole Bloom
Chocolate Obsession by Michael Recchiuti
Pure Chocolate: Divine Desserts by Fran Bigelow
Bittersweet: Recipes and Tales from a Life in Chocolate by Alice Medrich
Not The Ultimate.......2003-07-22
I was not happy when I started reading this book. The key to this book is the word "encyclopedia", and the absence of the word "cookbook" in the title. As a glossy coffee table book, it is barely adequate; as a cookbook full of chocolate recipes, it is worthless. Much of the material in this book has been recycled from an equally reprehensible book "Chocolate Ecstasy".
The first part of this book is a rather standard (and forgettable) regurgitation about chocolate: history, processing, taste, commercial brands, and physiology. By and large, this is standard material cribbed mostly from other books. It only has value if you have not read other books about chocolate.
If you approach this book as a coffee table book full of glossy, beautiful pictures, it is not all that good. Many pictures (perhaps up to 1/3, but I did not really count) are of poor quality and have a rust-colored tinge to them (whether this is from the printing, badly lit photos, or whatever, I do not know).
The recipes are so short and inadequate as to be laughable. Many complex, difficult recipes are casually tossed off in half a dozen sentences. The recipe instructions seemed to have been carefully edited down to make sure that each recipe plus photos takes up exactly one page (heaven forbid should a recipe occupy 2 pages). The mistakes, errors, and editorial inconsistencies are so numerous as to be not worth listing here (for example, there is no such thing as a "33 x 13 x 9-inch jelly roll pan", or a "30 x 12 x 8 inch jelly roll pan"). The recipes clearly have not been through a test kitchen, and the author uses a bewildering array of non-standard baking pans (unless these, too, are typographical errors; with this book, it is hard to be sure).
If you are curious about how those elegant chocolate desserts are created, then this book will satisfy your curiosity. Every recipe starts with a picture (something I wish more cookbooks about chocolate would emulate), gives you the ingredients, and a rough description about the steps involved to make it.
If you want good recipes that you can do in your home kitchen, look elsewhere. The rating I give is as a coffee table book, not as a cookbook; as a cookbook, I would give a much lower rating. The kindest thing I can think of to say about this book is that it is a fairly interesting collection of recipes that will have you rifling through your other chocolate cookbooks, looking for a similar recipe.
A near-definitive chocolate guide.......1999-10-07
This book is, far and away, the best comprehensive chocolate reference. The depth of information on such esoterica as different bean varieties and different national confectioners is far greater than its competition and a testament to thorough research. Quibbles? The recipes, although good, and different (a definite plus) in general, seem to have a leaning for alcohol, especially in the more decadent desserts. Having *some* alcoholic dessert entries is fine, but geez, a dessert doesn't *have* to have alcohol in it to be sinful! Particularly with chocolate, where alcohol is indeed a tricky mix and most desserts do better without it. Of more serious concern is the ubiquity of self-rising flour. This makes it very hard to tune the recipe, especially, if, like me, you consider using self-rising flour a travesty to "real" baking. However, these are minor picks and overall the book is a must-buy.
Scrumptious........1998-09-28
This book contains a myriad of scrumptious recipes that work. It is also full of fascinating information on chocolate and its history. Moreover, it is delightful (and delicious) to just look at.
The sensuality of delicate chocolate treats,.......1998-06-27
Passion and sensuality are just two words to describe the exquisitive impressions felt reading this book, and appreciating the well-documented recipes. Tasting them is even a further extasis for the mouth. The photographs are mouth-watering, and adequately progressive. This book is definitely the best chocolate encyclopedia I've had the chance to devour in years...
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