Rating:  Summary: Great Easy Funny Book Review: Don't miss out on reading the Intro. Here is an inspirational story of the beginnings of two people who fall in love with what they do--tarts.Here are their tried and true recipes, for which they've made them over and over again. The results are yours for the baking. To do this there are great sections on equipment, technique. Not only for tarts, but salds, soups and muffins, brownies, cookies, etc. I'm particularly impressed with "Roasted Eggplant and Tomato Tart with Basil" "Chocolate-Banana Tart" "Black Plum and Honey Tart". The Summer Berry Scones are knock outs and The Crunchy Dried Cranberry-Chocolate Chip Cookies are killers also. This will be a fun book for the home gourmet to mess around with and discover new cook with your hands baked goods to eat with the fingers food! Well done with great reading thorughout, especially with the fun side bars scattered throughout.
Rating:  Summary: The Art of the Tart Review: Don't miss out on reading the Intro. Here is an inspirational story of the beginnings of two people who fall in love with what they do--tarts. Here are their tried and true recipes, for which they've made them over and over again. The results are yours for the baking. To do this there are great sections on equipment, technique. Not only for tarts, but salds, soups and muffins, brownies, cookies, etc. I'm particularly impressed with "Roasted Eggplant and Tomato Tart with Basil" "Chocolate-Banana Tart" "Black Plum and Honey Tart". The Summer Berry Scones are knock outs and The Crunchy Dried Cranberry-Chocolate Chip Cookies are killers also. This will be a fun book for the home gourmet to mess around with and discover new cook with your hands baked goods to eat with the fingers food! Well done with great reading thorughout, especially with the fun side bars scattered throughout.
Rating:  Summary: Full Fat and Attitude Review: First the good: This book ended our quest for the perfect tart dough. The pear/raisin/ginger muffin is fabulous. The cookies are fabulous, no equal - 5 stars. Now the bad and the ugly: I get that it's frustrating that nimcompoops ask for fat-free baked goods; keep it to yourselves. I have no quibble with the philosophy and practice of cream and butter (I'd probably be drummed out of America's Dairyland if I did). I do quibble with the fact that this is stated again and again and again and again. It begins to feel condescending already! For example, most of us do actually know that a muffin is a kind of cake and that there's half the calories of a scone in a half-scone and that a chocolate macaroon is rich. - minus 1 star
Rating:  Summary: These guys are real sweet tarts!!!! Review: For someone who has minimal baking/cooking skills, I found the book user friendly, with beautiful, lush photographs. As well, Mr. Audureau's humor is very charming and disarming allowing you to feel confident in executing these yummy treats. By the end of the book, you too will feel you can open you own little tart shop in the south of France. Enjoyable read!
Rating:  Summary: A Keeper! Review: I am an an obsessive cookbook collector, yet I won't purchase any cookbook that doesn't have recipes that I wouldn't prepare and serve to my friends.I acquired ONCE UPON A TART several weeks ago and have been exceedingly happy with the recipes and the results. Specifically, I have tried the "Provencal Tart with Gruyere and Herbes de Provence", a recipe for which I have searched for years. It is quite delicious. Another recipe that I have made is the "Tomato Chutney with Golden Raisins" which is absolutely wonderful! I have about 10 other recipes marked to try, and I am certain that they will all be as delicious and as well received as the first two!
Rating:  Summary: Incredible recipes Review: I am love cooking and most of the cook book are so boring. Once upon a Tart cook book has some incredible recipes and so easy to make. Those Savory Tart are wondurfull and so good to eat with freinds.
Rating:  Summary: Great Easy Funny Book Review: I gave this book to at least 15 of my friends. The book offer some great easy food. I love the way those two guys got into Food and open a shop in Soho NY. All my friends I gave the book to keep telling me how much they like it. Good work. Any chance to get a new volume soon?
Rating:  Summary: Creative / Easy / Fun story Review: I got this book last week and realy enjoy it a lot. Very cretive, easy food to make. Not so many cook book on the market that make you enjoy cooking. I love it.
Rating:  Summary: Avoid This Baking Book! Review: I live near "Once Upon a Tart" and had high hopes for this book. However, the authors should stick to baking, not writing. The recipes are below average and the writing is very blah. I was disappointed.
Rating:  Summary: Baking my way through Once Upon a Tart Review: I received this book as a gift a few weeks ago and I cannot stop baking!! It is filled with wonderful receipes, photos and information. The receipes are very easy to follow, even for a novice baker like myself, and the results are just outstanding. My friends, family and colleagues are now clamoring for "my tarts" and "my scones". The orange scones with chocolate chips, on page 254 are my favorite. But I am sure I will find others. I highly recommend this book for anyone who loves food, even if they do not bake, as the book is fun to read.
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