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Title: Spago Chocolate by Mary Bergin, Judy Gethers, Alan Richardson ISBN: 0679448330 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: October, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.33
Rating: 5
Summary: Truly Great Book but Not for the Faint of Heart!
Comment: This is one of the best dessert cookbooks I have in my library. I've been baking since I was five when I started out cracking eggs in my Grandmother's restaurant. She taught me much about patience and paying strict attention to detail. She also taught me that if it was a humid day that I needed to be more careful and selective about what I wanted to bake that day and how to buy the very best and freshest flour and other ingredients. You must start with the very best ingredients to do these recipes justice. Before attempting the more difficult or unfamiliar recipes in this cookbook, one must really be familiar with all the basic baking techniques. If you use a measuring cup meant for liquids to measure out your flour you are headed for disaster. Yes, these are simple, well known rules but it is surprising how a litle mistake can mean the difference between success and failure. You should also know how to buy, store and temper chocolate for the recipes you are making. This is not a cookbook for the faint of heart but if you are willing to dive in and indulge yourself this book can be great fun. If you don't enjoy this cookbook and aren't successful with it, sell it back on Amazon and move on. Spending precious energy beating a dead horse doesn't help you and won't effect the sale of this book. Try another book:-)
Rating: 4
Summary: Some great recipes - Easy to use and great tasting
Comment: This is one of the staples in my baking cookbooks. We have never found a chocolate cake as good, moist and easy to bake and modify as this one. My husband calls out for this cake. The other recipes that I have tried are also quite good. The only other cake cookbook that I would recommend is the Cake Bible, which is superb.
Rating: 1
Summary: Disasterous Cake Recipes
Comment: If this book could receive a zero star rating, than that would more accurately reflect my personal rating. I have attempted many of the cake recipes in this book. While the directions seem to be clear and complete, the end results are disasterous. In one recipe, I have tried this 4 separate times following the directions as instructed but all 4 attempts have had bad results. I have tried other recipes in this book for cakes with poor results as well. I have taken several cooking and baking classes so I am confident that it is not my technique and that something is amiss with either the directions or the ingredients. This is the only cookbook in my collection that has been permanently discarded.
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Title: Spago Desserts by Mary Bergin, Judy Gethers, Judith Gethers, Wolfgang Puck ISBN: 067942248X Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: December, 1994 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Simply Sensational Desserts: 140 Classic for the Home Baker from New York's Famous Patisserie and Bistro by Francois Payard, Tim Moriarty, Tish Boyle, Alain Ducasse ISBN: 0767903587 Publisher: Broadway Books Pub. Date: 07 September, 1999 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Perfect Cakes by Nick Malgieri ISBN: 0060198796 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $37.50 |
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Title: Cocolat: Extraordinary Chocolate Desserts by Alice Medrich, Patricia Brabant ISBN: 0446514195 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: October, 1990 List Price(USD): $35.50 |
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Title: Chocolate Desserts by Pierre Herme by Pierre Herme, Dorie Greenspan, Jean-Louis Bloch-Laine ISBN: 0316357413 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: 20 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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