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Chocolate Holidays
by Alice Medrich
ISBN-10: 1579652905
ISBN-13: 9781579652906
ISBN-13: 9781579652906
Region: USA
Publisher: Artisan
Publication Date: October, 2005
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About Chocolate Holidays
Publisher Web Link: http://www.workman.com/artisanbooks/
Chocolate Holidays: Unforgettable Desserts for Every Season
Dramatic, seductive, playful, infinite in its variety, otherworldly in its taste: It’s chocolate, and here’s all the impetus you need to indulge your passion for it every day of the year. The beloved Alice Medrich, renowned for impeccable recipes that produce stellar results, has written Chocolate Holidays especially for people who love to bake but don’t have enough hours in the day. Without compromising on flavor, texture, or ingredients, she pares down the preparation steps, teaches us resraint, and comes up with fifty amazing recipes, each a little jewel of elegance and simplicty.
An ideal year in chocolate might start with a New Year’s brunch starring Chocolate Blini with Berry Caviar. Then there are Valentine’s Day chocolate scones and St. Patrick’s Day Irish Coffee Chocolate Mousse. And of course any "holiday" your imagination can conjure up is a perfect reason to indulge: perhaps a decadently rich hot chocolate served in demitasse portions to exorcise those end-of-February blues.
Spring might whisper chocolate Giant Krispy Easter Treats or a Passover Chocolate Nut Sponge Torte, or white chocolate-glazed Apricot Orange Cupcakes for a wedding shower. Summer suggests fruit and ice cream desserts such as the Independence Day red, white, and blue sundaes, followed by autumn’s pies and tarts laden with chocolate and nuts. And no matter what you’ve been putting on the table for Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays past, it will be out-chocolated by Alice’s Chocolate Cranberry Pudding and her Chocolate Hazelnut Roulade—both unequivocally year-end musts.
In Chocolate Holidays, Medrich unlocks the secrets of our favorite sweet, offering chocolate desserts for every season, for every reason.
First published in hardcover as A Year in Chocolate (Warner Books, 2001) (http://www.workman.com/)
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About Alice Medrich
Author Web Link: http://www.alicemedrich.com/
My career started with a hand-written recipe for the tiny cocoa-dusted chocolate truffles given to me by my Paris landlady in l973. I went on to make and sell those pure bittersweet truffles at the Pig by the Tail Charcuterie (a distant fond memory now) across the street from Chez Panisse in Berkeley CA in l973. This led to the accidental invention of the much larger so called “American” chocolate truffle (hand-dipped in un-tempered chocolate!) and the opening of my own chocolate dessert shop, Cocolat, in l976. Since the Cocolat days, I’ve written 7 cookbooks –the 8th to be published this fall—and won three cookbook of the year awards, taught cooking classes across the country, consulted with venerable chocolate companies as well as the newest cutting–edge chocolate entrepreneurs, appeared on TV with our beloved Julia Child and more. Today I continue to write, consult, teach, and experiment. I’m still learning and still having fun. (http://www.alicemedrich.com/)
Cookbooks by Alice Medrich
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