Synopses & Reviews
Is there a soul on earth who doesn't like chocolate cookies? Internationally renowned chef Marcel Desaulniers makes chocolate more irresistible than ever with this sybaritic selection of chocolate cookies, from simple Cocoa Van Go-Gos to complex and sin-sational Golden Spider Webs with Wicked Ganache and Raspberry Rapture.
There are yummy sweets to delight young and old, including Chocolate Almond Truffle Bars and Successively Excessively Crunchy Peanut Butter Brownies; cherished family recipes such as Hessie Rae's Chocolate Pecan Tart Cookies and Mom's Chocolate Banana Raisin Yogurt Cookies with Yogurt Icing; and some artful creations to fascinate the eye and tantalize the palate, including Chocolate Mango Ambush and Chocolate Balloon Cups with Oven-Roasted Pears, Toasted Hazelnuts and "Burnt" Caramel Sabayon. Death by Chocolate Cookies -- what a way to go!
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 142) and index.
About the Author
Marcel Desaulniers, executive chef and co-owner of The Trellis Restaurant in Colonial Williamsburg, has been named in
Food and Wine's Honor Roll of Chefs and in
Cook's magazine's
Who's Who of Cooking. In 1988 he became the first chef from the South to be honored by the James Beard Foundation as a Great American Chef. He has been inducted into the American Academy of Chefs and the Honor Society of the American Culinary Federation, and he is on the Board of Trustees of the Culinary Institute of America. In addition, the Trellis Restaurant has won
Restaurants & Institutions magazine's prestigious Ivy Award.
Desaulniers is the author of The Trellis Cookbook; Death by Chocolate, which won the James Beard Award as the Best Baking and Dessert Book of 1992 and has been universally hailed -- from Playboy, which called it "a cookbook to die for," to Redbook, which said it was "The ultimate volume for the chocoholic," to The Washington Post, which called the book "silky, sensuous, soul-stirring"; The Burger Meisters, which won the James Beard Award as the Best Book on a Single Subject in 1994; Desserts To Die For, which won two Julia Child Awards in 1995 as the Best Book in the Bread, Other Baking and Sweets category and as the Cook's Choice Award Book of the Year; and, with Nancy Thomas, An Alphabet of Sweets. The host of the immensely popular Death by Chocolate and Burger Meisters television series, Marcel Desaulniers lives and writes in Williamsburg, Virginia.