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Dessert FourPlay Sweet Quartets from a Four-Star Pastry Chef

By:Johnny Iuzzini

When I first saw Johnny’s cookbook Dessert FourPlay Sweet Quartets from a Four-Star Pastry Chef ($35.00 Clarkson Potter) I figured I had a winner of a book, but not a cookbook - just a “lookbook”. Several weeks later, FourPlay, is still on my kitchen table - not covered in a film of dust as I might have expected, but doused in sugar, caramel and tuile batter. FourPlay turns out to be quite a clever book; it’s a book that you can actually use…

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Frozen Desserts

By:Francisco J. Migoya

Frozen Desserts, by Francisco J. Migoya, is another user friendly, at-home education from the world renowned Culinary Institute of America.  The book successfully combines culinary ...

Caprial's Desserts

By:Caprial Pence, Melissa Carey

The question at the outset is this: how does a professional chef make their methods and recipes truly accessible to the home cook? A restaurant ...

All About Ices, Jellies and Creams

By:Henry G. Harris and S. P. Borella

In their book, "All About Ices, Jellies, and Creams", authors Henry Harris and S. P. Borella trumpeted a wakeup call to their fellow confectioners to ...

GELATO! Italian Ice Creams, Sorbetti, and Granite

By:Pamela Sheldon Johns

I scream, you scream we all scream for Gelato! This is not your mothers ice cream book, unless of course your mother was from Sicily. ...

Grand Finales: A Neoclassic View of Plated Desserts

By:Tish Boyle, Tim Moriarty, John Uher

I have had this book for almost a year. I am almost ashamed to say that, as I had not written about it. This book ...

Simple French Desserts

By:Jill O'Connor

It is hard to believe that the words "Simple" and "French Desserts" can be spoken in the same sentence, but Jill O'Connor shows you in ...

The Great Book of Pears

By:Barbara Jeanne Flores

As I tested and sampled recipes from this book, my husband and I began to wax poetic on the subject of pears. We commended the ...

The Making of a Pastry Chef

By:Andrew Maclauchlan Photography by Scott Vlaun

Dog-eared, coffee stained, inspiring, visually gorgeous, these are the words I would use for The Making of a Pastry Chef and you will too. This ...

The Jamlady Cookbook

By:Beverly Ellen Schoonmaker Alfeld

There is not whole lot that I knew about jam, jelly or preserve making, I now know. I knew about sugar, fruit, pectin and some ...

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