Chocolate: From Simple Cookies to Extravagant Showstoppers (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780060187118)

Nick Malgieri, who taught us everything we need to know about baking in How to Bake, takes on chocolate, the world's favorite food. With the authoritative accessibility he brings to his teaching, Nick bridges the gap between the professional baker and the home cook. He knows techniques and ingredients and he teaches them with hand-holding efficiency. In ten chapters, Nick offers a primer on basics and every kind of chocolate from coca to chips and white chocolate (and why it isn't really chocolate in the strictest sense) to big dark slabs of the world's favorite luxury food and the many, many ways to enjoy it.

Information on storage, handling, and the fundamentals needed to create chocolate confections is clear and concise. Recipe sections include everything you need to know to turn the food of the gods into desserts for us mortals: cakes and cookies, creams and custards, ice creams, pies and pastries, sauces and beverages, truffles and pralines, dipped and molded chocolates, all adapted for the home cook.

Illustrated with four-color photographs throughout, all 380 luscious recipes will send a shiver of delight down the spine of every chocolate lover. Chocolate is definitive without being intimidating; it is a true home companion for anyone who wants to cook with chocolate.

Author: Nick Malgieri
ISBN-10: 0060187115
ISBN-13: 9780060187118
Publisher: William Morrow & Company
Language: English
Published: 09/09/1998
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 3.66lbs
Size: 9.54h x 8.42w x 1.64d
Award: IACP Crystal Whisk Award - Winner

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 08/01/1998 pg. 1947
Publishers Weekly 09/07/1998 pg. 90
Library Journal 09/15/1998 pg. 107
Booklist 07/01/1999 pg. 1906