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Summary: A beautiful book -- well worth the price.
Review: A magnificent book, well worth the purchase price. You can't help but be inspired in your own desserts after seeing the pictures of the desserts in this book. Some of the interviews with the pastry chefs are also interesting.
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Summary: tough, but fun
Review: A very, very awesome book. You have to be hard core to want this book. It took about 5 hours for me and some friends to make one of the desserts, but we had a blast. It measures everything out with wait, so you don't have to worry if you bought the jumbo eggs when the recipee assumes you are using large. If you like cooking, buy this book. If you don't like cooking, I still say buy this book.The sorbets alone are worth the price of the book
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Summary: Grand Finales is a Grand book
Review: As a professional in the industry, it gave me great pleasure to read this wonderful book. The pictures are creativity itsself. And, as any professional baker would know, it is written in the proper weights and measurements. Truly fabulous. My only complaint is that it only contains American Chefs and doesn't include any Canadian or European chefs.
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Summary: Buy it for the pictures
Review: As a professional in the industry, it gave me great pleasure to read this wonderful book. The pictures are creativity itsself. And, as any professional baker would know, it is written in the proper weights and measurements. Truly fabulous. My only complaint is that it only contains American Chefs and doesn't include any Canadian or European chefs.
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Summary: fantastic
Review: First there is the beautiful photography that displays these creations marvelously. Just seeing these desserts can inspire an individual. You don't have to copy the dessert to a tee but pick and chose your garnishes to suit your own individual style and ability. The book is also loaded with recipes. Recipes that work. The use of weight to measure is much more accurate than cups and for those who only use cups and spoons, you can convert the recipes easily. Any cookbook has charts in it to help you. The book is well worth the price. Although it may seem intimidating many recipes are very do-able
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Summary: Excellent
Review: I'm a pastry student in Peru and I just can tell all the people that love pastry that this the best book I ever seen and I recommend a lot
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Summary: Grand Finales is a Grand book
Review: The book "Grand Finales" is a book for all people who are interested in pastry and cooking. It is very discriptive and has many recipies with fondations so you can make mank differnet dishes.
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Summary: Grand Finales is a Grand book
Review: The book "Grand Finales" is a book for all people who are interested in pastry and cooking. It is very discriptive and has many recipies with fondations so you can make mank differnet dishes.
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Summary: an extraordinary book for elegant dessert lovers
Review: This book is definitly for the accomplished ameture, pastry chefs and the like. The photographs are wonderful, and the participating chefs reviews are well organized. Would have been much simpler if all the recipes were in cups, tablespoons,etc.measuerments, rather than weights and volumes.
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Summary: heavy on elaborate presentation
Review: This book is great for presentation ideas, but really is only for accomplished pastry chefs. The recipes are given only in weight, and the presentations are so elaborate that they are really unpractical, even for most restaurants. Other books give more specific directions for some of the garnishing techniques. The biographies of the pastry chefs are interesting. A nice picture book.
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