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Summary: Hand over all the chocolate & No One will Get Hurt!
Review: The king of gnache gives us an outstanding chocolate collection. Here are recipes which are tested and tried and made with ingredients easily obtainable for the home cook.Especially encouraging is his concern and detail in slowly, carefully, taking you through each step, not just assuming as some do that one is already familiar with the technique. There is also the first section which talks about buying the chocolate, what types they used, even the type of ovens used to create and test this cookbook. Each recipe lists equipment needed, then the details on how to make, followed at the end by my favorite standard of Marcel, "The chef's touch." Favorites from this book include "Chocolate Trinity Parfaits" "Chocolate Pecan Chocolate Chunk Pie" "Chocolate Strawberry Mousse Cake" "Chocolate Cashew Brownie Cake" and "Chocolate Raspberry Toasted Hazelnut Ice Cream." Oh, did I mention that the photos are as mouthwatering as the recipes! Long live the King of Gnache!
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Summary: extraordinary
Review: The pulsing beat of chocolate decadence continues. Although the new edition features only 4 additional recipes, these additions are chocolate masterpieces. If you are like me and own the first edition, it is probably in shameless condition due to excessive usage. So I suggest that you add this to your collection.
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Summary: Wow!
Review: This is a fantastic book. Filled with recipes that can almost make one feel full simply to read them...so rich, so chocolatey...Absolutely wonderful full-color photographs of most of the recipes, and plenty of helpful drawings. This is a beautiful book, but also a magnificently usable cookbook, with a wide variety of recipes. The authors have spared nothing in presenting recipes that can take hours and hours, even a couple days, and some fine-tuned equipment to make. But they also offer many recipes that, in terms of making sweets, are fairly quick (like maybe an hour or so). The authors also do a very commendable job offering helpful suggestions, hints, and directions on how to get around some ofthe tricky stuff. They also include an "appendix" of equipment and how to use it. Lastly, before putting any recipe in the book, they went out to a local grocery store in Williamsburg to make sure the ingredients are easily findable. It is their belief that amazing things can be created with plain old regular ingredients. This is a wonderful, wonderful cookbook, that should be in everyone's collection. Go find it! You must have it, if you like chocolate. Even if you hate cooking, if you love chocolate, you'll want this book for the full page pictures of perfectly executed desserts.
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Summary: wonderfully decadent!
Review: when i first took this book out of the library i was a little intimidated, but that soon passed. as i ventured into trying some of the recipes i was very pleasantly suprised with my results. everything i made was wonderful and rich!! if you crave a strawberry mousse cake that calls for about 3 lbs. of chocolate then this is the book for you!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: One of my favorite cookbooks
Review: While many of the recipes are not trivial in terms of prep time and complexity, they are well worth the effort, especially if you have a special event you are preparing for. I bought the book after a visit to the Trellis restaurant in Williamsburg. Desaulnier's desserts are to die for. If you are looking for simpler recipes, try the Hershey's chocolate cookbook.
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