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Title: A Year in Chocolate: Four Seasons of Unforgettable Desserts by Alice Medrich ISBN: 0-446-52664-9 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 24 October, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Another good one from Alice Medrich
Comment: Alice Medrich is one of my favourite chocolate cookbook authors, and this one is another winner. Her recipes are all very carefully tested and if you follow her instructions you will be very pleased with the results. There is a range of simple to complex recipes, and all of the ones I've tried taste wonderful. The Breakfast Valentines are unassuming looking, but taste great! The Winter Solstice Cookies look and taste spectacular. I'm making them as my contribution to a Christmas cookie exchange. The Chocolate Cranberry Bread Pudding is wonderful "comfort food" and would be perfect for a holiday brunch. The Mocha Marjolaine looks very complicated, but is relatively simple to make, a nut meringue cake and a ganache. The ganache is divided, with part whipped for the filling and the rest used as a glaze. You will really impress company! These recipes are all in the winter section - I'm looking forward to spring, summer and fall to keep trying more of the recipes.
Rating: 3
Summary: Attractive but no award-winner
Comment: Again, Alice Medrich offers a catchy concept, meticulously researched recipes, informative tips and techniques, and eye-catching visuals... but this former devotee is left with my appetite unsatisfied. Just as with her last book "Cookies and Brownies", Alice seems tight-fisted with the number of recipes offered (some seem recycled from her previous books). Also, while the photography and food styling are lavish as always, the design goes over the top with soft-focus artsy-ness that's more fitting to a coffee-table artbook than a cookbook. I can't always make out what the photos are intended to show. Finally, it's odd that the bookjacket identifies Alice as a columnist for the San Francisco Examiner when (as far as I know) she hasn't published there for nearly a year. (I look for Alice's contributions to foodie magazines, etc., but haven't seen much at all in the last few years.) All told, this book is another attractive if not brilliant effort. Let's hope there's more fulfilling inspirational juice in the future!
Rating: 4
Summary: Nice but....
Comment: Let me start by saying that I have never prepared any recipe of Alice Medrich's that was not all that she promised. This book is no exception. It has some nice recipes and a lovey selection of desserts. My only problem was that I was expecting more. It is a small volume, like her cookie book. I would recommend the book as a gift to a novice but if you are expecting the grandeur of Cocolat you will be disappointed. It is cute and even the common recipes have some kind of flare. For $18.00 it is a nice book, I do not think I would pay the full $26.00 for it.
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Title: Alice Medrich's Cookies and Brownies by Alice Medrich ISBN: 0446523828 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Cocolat: Extraordinary Chocolate Desserts by Alice Medrich ISBN: 0446514195 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 1990 List Price(USD): $35.50 |
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Title: Bittersweet: Recipes and Tales from a Life in Chocolate by Alice Medrich, Deborah Jones ISBN: 1579651607 Publisher: Artisan Sales Pub. Date: November, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Celebrate with Chocolate: Totally Over-the-Top Recipes by Marcel Desaulniers ISBN: 0688162983 Publisher: Morrow Cookbooks Pub. Date: 22 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Baking in America: Traditional and Contemporary Favorites from the Past 200 Years by Greg Patent ISBN: 0618048316 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 01 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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