Synopses & Reviews
A city rich in food diversity, New Orleans is as much a city of banana cream pie as it is crawfish boil. In DamGoodSweet, pastry chef David Guas and food writer Raquel Pelzel delve into the rich fabric of the home-style sweets of New Orleans and its surrounding area. Through 50 amazing desserts, from traditional beignets, red velvet cake, and pralines to the lesser-known Roman chewing candy and calas fried rice cakes, Guas and Pelzel transport cooks from their home kitchens into the giant dessert gumbo that is New Orleans. Through instructional and anecdotal headnotes, plenty of great tips, and fun stories, DamGoodSweet is completely dedicated to the pastries and desserts of a unique American city.
Review
In an ode to his hometown, the pastry chef David Guas, along with the cookbook writer Raquel Pelzel, documents vivid food memories and classic New Orleans recipes in DamGoodSweet: Desserts to Satisfy Your Sweet Tooth, New Orleans Style (Taunton, 2009). From loving descriptions of his growing up eating beignets at Café du Monde to recipes for a knockout king cake and a grown-up bread pudding drizzled with bourbon–caramel sauce, DamGoodSweet takes us on a culinary journey through the rich landscape of Southern culture. --Saveur
About the Author
Raised in New Orleans, David Guas is the former Executive Pastry Chef for four of Passion Food Hospitality’s restaurants. In 2004, Guas was awarded the title of Pastry Chef of the Year by the Washington Restaurant Association. He is currently a consultant to restaurants and restaurant groups with his firm DamGoodSweet. David has appeared on The Today Show. He lives in Washington, D.C.
Table of Contents
OLD SCHOOL N'AWLINS Buttermilk Beignets
Bananas Foster
Éclairs
Double Chocolate Bread Pudding with Salted Bourbon Caramel Sauce
Crêpes du Vieux Carré
King Cake
Calas Fried Rice Fritters
CRUST & CRUMB
The GAP's Fried Apple Pie
Pecan Pie
Sweet Potato Tart Tatin
Coconut Cream Pie
Nana?s Banana Bread
Black & Blue Crumble
Lemon Icebox Pie
CAKES IN ALL SHAPES
Red Velvet Cake
Lemon Doberge Cake
Chocolate Chip Cookie Cake
Buttermilk Drops
Ponchatoula Strawberry & Brown Butter Shortcake
Gâteau de Sirop
Sweet Corn Cake with Root Beer Syrup
TAG's PB Brownies
Chocolate Cupped Cakes with Coffee & Chicory
SOFTIES & SPOON SWEETS
Cup Custard
Vanilla Bean Pudding
Banana Pudding with Vanilla Wafer Crumble
Old-Fashioned Chocolate Pudding
Mahatma Rice Pudding
Café au Lait Crème Brûlée
100 DEGREES IN THE SHADE
Lemon-Herbsaint Poppers
Watermelon Granita-Topped Sno-Balls
Straight Up Vanilla Bean Ice Cream
Cane Syrup Ice Cream
Pecan & Brown Butter Ice Cream
Brandy Milk Punch Ice Cream
SPREADABLE SWEETS
Hammond-Independence Blueberry Jam
Ponchatoula Strawberry Jam
Lemon Curd
Fig Jam
Honey-Poached Kumquats
Red Pepper Jelly
LAGNIAPPES
Heavenly Hash
Pralines
Roman Chewing Candy
Spiced Pecans
Cane Syrup Snaps
Caramel Peanut Popcorn
Turtles
Salted Caramels
Peanut Brittle