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The New Taste of Chocolate: A Guide to Fine Chocolate with Recipes

The New Taste of Chocolate: A Guide to Fine Chocolate with Recipes


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Lick your lips, don your apron and settle your specs as the book for serious chocoholics make its cultural, historical and culinary debut - Beautifully produced hardback with full-colour illustrations - Includes 25 mouth-watering recipes from Internationally known pastry chefs and chocolatiers:no chocolate lover could - or should - withstand - Instructs the true would-be chocolate connoisseur 'how to taste' the heavenly food, offers a cultural history of chocolate for the intellectually inclined cognoscenti, and identifies the Cacao bean for the hopeful chocolate specialist - A flavoursome rich, smooth, indulgent chocolate opus ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: We've learned to taste the difference between great and good wines, wonderful and not-so-wonderful breads and heavenly and marginal cheeses. Now chocoalte, the world's most coveted indulgence for over 4000 years get its turn. Cacao importer and chocolate expert Maricell Presilla takes chocoholics to new territory - to the almost primeval plantations of Latin America, where the world's first and finest cacaos are grown. With 25 recipes, and directions for making chocolate at home, Presilla elevates our taste for the food of the gods to a whole new levels

About the Author :
Maricel Presilla is a respected culinary historian, chef and co-owner of a pan-Latin restaurant, and the principal of Gran Cacao, an importer of premium cacao beans.

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‚AuA nuanced history of chocolate. . . . There is much to learn from THE NEW TASTE OF CHOCOLATE.‚Au ‚AiMiami Herald ‚AuStylish and original . . . [THE NEW TASTE OF CHOCOLATE] is truly for connoisseurs. . . . The illustrations make this in-depth study a fascinating read.‚Au ‚AiOregonian ‚AuMaricel Presilla talks about chocolate and the cacao beans from which it's made with an enthusiasm and depth of knowledge as rich as the couvertures she cherishes.‚Au ‚AiNewark Star Ledger‚Au[Maricel Presilla] primer on tasting chocolate is a standout.‚Au ‚AiFood & Wine ‚AuBest Illustrated Books. . . . A serious, clear treatise on a wonderful plant, its botany, social history, agronomic past and present‚Aiall of it tied together spryly and illustrated with a fascinating array of historical documents, prints, photographs and maps.‚Au‚AiWall Street Journal‚AuBest Cookbooks of the Year. . . . Chocolate lovers in search of total immersion should find THE NEW TASTE OF CHOCOLATE a handsomely designed guide. . .an in-depth introduction for the apprentice chocolate connoisseur.‚Au‚AiCorby Kummer, New York Times Book Review‚AuA highly readable history and science book with recipes, answering hundreds of fascinating questions that most chocoholics probably don't even know enough to ask.‚Au‚AiWine Spectator ‚AuIf you want to understand chocolate in all its sweet and savory and ancient ways‚Aiincluding knowing how the raw fruit tastes‚Aithen you want Maricel Presilla's new book.‚Au‚AiThe Food Network‚AuAn immense amount of effort, drawing on nearly three millennia of history, religion, art, science, and technology, lies behind every chocolate bar. THE NEW TASTE OF CHOCOLATE makes it clear that remembering, and protecting, this tradition provides a payoff in every bite.‚Au‚AiSaveur‚AuExhaustively researched . . . a book for chocolate lovers w


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781580081436
  • Publisher: Random House USA Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: Ten Speed Press
  • Height: 222 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Width: 203 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1580081436
  • Publisher Date: 01 Oct 2000
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: A Guide to Fine Chocolate with Recipes


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