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This title in other editionsBittersweet: Recipes and Tales from a Life in Chocolateby Alice Medrich
Awards2004 IACP Cookbook of the Year
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:The time when home bakers had only one choice of baking chocolate is long past. Today, we have an entire new generation of chocolates to choose from: chocolates with less sugar, more cocoa bean solids, and definitely more flavor. And these "new chocolates" — called percentage chocolates — beg for the creation of new recipes and a fresh take on the classics.
Every recipe in Bittersweet is foolproof and utterly delicious, no matter what your level of expertise. You'll marvel that recipes as classic as brownies, chocolate cake, and ice cream can still surprise and that souffles, crepes, and even pasta sauces can be so dramatically flavorful. Review:"This all sounds highly cerebral, but once Medrich puts her theory into practice...it becomes deliciously clear....Clearly, this author's curiosity is her defining characteristic; her ability to convey the fruits of that curiosity is the readers' good fortune." Publishers Weekly
Review:"Scattered throughout are insightful essays on Medrich's love of chocolate....Attractively designed with wonderful color photos and simple recipes, this is highly recommended for all collections." Library Journal
Book News Annotation:The former owner of the innovative Berkeley, California dessert shop "Cocolat" and author of the award-winning cookbook of the same name describes her conversion to "chocolate for adults" and her quest to create extraordinary desserts. Medrich includes recipes (some of lighter versions and non-desserts), sufficient photos to induce chocolate lust, a glossary, and fine chocolate sources.
Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Synopsis:Today's chocolates are not your mother's baking squares. The new-style chocolates are much more flavorful and they come in as many varieties and blends as wine grapes. These new chocolates — made by Lindt, Valrhona, Scharffen Berger, El Rey, Callebaut, and others — are known as percentage chocolates: the higher the percentage, the more chocolate, the less sugar. Percentage chocolates have their own baking characteristics as well as unique flavor. In Bittersweet, Alice cracks the code for substituting one type of chocolate for another and offers new recipes — and fresh takes on old ones — that will please all who want flavor and nuance in their chocolate desserts.
Synopsis:The "first Lady of Chocolate" introduces us to the "new chocolates" — called percentage chocolates: chocolates with less sugar, more cocoa bean solids and definitely more flavor. Award-winning author Alice Medrich cracks the code for substituting one chocolate for another, and offers new recipes — and fresh takes on old ones — that will please any cocoa-bean lover. From basic brownies to chocolate pasta sauces, this book will change the way we eat and bake with chocolate.
Synopsis:This recipe book involves "percentage chocolates" - the higher the percentage of chocolate, the less sugar they contain, as well as their own baking characteristics. It thereby cracks the code for substituting one type of chocolate for another and offers new recipes - and fresh takes on old ones.
Synopsis:It is hard, today, to imagine a time when the word bittersweet was rarely spoken, when 70 percent of the chocolate purchased by Americans was milk chocolate. Today's world of chocolate is a much larger universe, where not only is the quality better and variety wider, but the very composition of the chocolate has changed.
To do justice to these new chocolates, which contain more pure chocolate and less sugar, we need a fresh approach to chocolate desserts--a new kind of recipe--and someone to crack the code for substituting one chocolate for another in both new and classic recipes. Alice Medrich, the "First Lady of Chocolate," delivers. With nearly 150 recipes--each delicious and foolproof, no matter your level of expertise--BitterSweet answers every chocolate question, teaches every technique, confides every secret, satisfies every craving. You'll marvel that recipes as basic as brownies and chocolate cake, mint chocolate chip ice cream and chocolate mousse, can still surprise and excite you, and that soufflés, chocolate panna cotta, even pasta sauces can be so dramatically flavorful. For the last thirty years, Alice Medrich has been learning, teaching, and sharing what she loves and understands about chocolate. BitterSweet is the culmination of her life in chocolate thus far: revolutionary recipes, profound knowledge, and charming tales of a chocolate life. Synopsis:Medrich cracks the code for substituting one type of chocolate for another and offers new recipes--and fresh takes on old ones--that will please all who want flavor and nuance in their chocolate desserts.
About the AuthorAlice Medrich's personal approach to recipes and techniques and her obsessional understanding of chocolate hvae inspired several award-winning cookbooks, including Cocolat: Extraordinary Chocolate Desserts and Chocolate and the Art of Low-Fat Desserts. She lives in Berkeley, California, with her daughter.
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