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.