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Title: Death by Chocolate: The Last Word on a Consuming Passion by Marcel Desaulniers, Michael Grand ISBN: 0847815641 Publisher: Rizzoli Pub. Date: September, 1992 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.63
Rating: 4
Summary: Lots of work! BIG PAYOFFS!
Comment: I love this book. I first got it in college and have been steadily expanding the recipes I'm brave enough to try as the years go by.
These recipes are complex, to say the least. This is All-Day cooking here, and no fooling. But, the ingredients are all readily available. This is a big plus for me. Nothing annoys me about a cookbook more than impossible to find, obscure ingredients. Unlike another reviewer, I didn't notice the photograph quality. My stuff *never* looks like the pictures, but that's just fine by me. It's the taste that ultimately counts.
But if you're like me, and really *love* being able to have an excuse to spend all day in the kitchen, this is a great book. The recipes make fabulous, impressive desserts. My favorite, by far, is the Dark Chocolate and Pumpkin Cheesecake, which has replaced pumpkin pie on the Thanksgiving dessert roster in my house. I also really love the caramel banana chocolate chip ice cream, the white chocolate ice cream, and I have even dared to make the chocolate wedlock, even though it took me two days. It was worth it. Every last second.
If you love cooking, and love chocloate-- this is for you.
Rating: 5
Summary: Wow!
Comment: This is a fantastic book. Filled with recipes that can almost make one feel full simply to read them...so rich, so chocolatey...Absolutely wonderful full-color photographs of most of the recipes, and plenty of helpful drawings. This is a beautiful book, but also a magnificently usable cookbook, with a wide variety of recipes.
The authors have spared nothing in presenting recipes that can take hours and hours, even a couple days, and some fine-tuned equipment to make. But they also offer many recipes that, in terms of making sweets, are fairly quick (like maybe an hour or so). The authors also do a very commendable job offering helpful suggestions, hints, and directions on how to get around some ofthe tricky stuff. They also include an "appendix" of equipment and how to use it. Lastly, before putting any recipe in the book, they went out to a local grocery store in Williamsburg to make sure the ingredients are easily findable. It is their belief that amazing things can be created with plain old regular ingredients.
This is a wonderful, wonderful cookbook, that should be in everyone's collection. Go find it! You must have it, if you like chocolate. Even if you hate cooking, if you love chocolate, you'll want this book for the full page pictures of perfectly executed desserts.
Rating: 4
Summary: Decadent and time-consuming
Comment: Cookbooks simply don't get more luscious, heavenly, or pompous than this one. The simplest recipes in this book take hours to make: the more complicated are recommended to take several days. One of the best (and certainly the best flourless) chocolate cakes I've had in my life came out of this book: I had less luck on my own making a simpler cookie recipe.
The directions are amazingly detailed, but this book simply isn't appropriate for beginners or people with quasi-normal kitchens, and you're left to your own devices if you want to adapt them. Fair warning: this book requires serious skill and care.
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Title: Death by Chocolate Cakes : An Astonishing Array of Chocolate Enchantments by Marcel Desaulniers ISBN: 0688162975 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 05 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Celebrate with Chocolate: Totally Over-the-Top Recipes by Marcel Desaulniers ISBN: 0688162983 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 22 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Desserts to Die for by Marcel Desaulniers, Michael Grand ISBN: 0684811391 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: November, 1995 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: TRELLIS COOKBOOK: EXPANDED EDITION by Marcel Desaulniers ISBN: 0671748424 Publisher: Fireside Pub. Date: January, 1992 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Death By Chocolate Cookies by Marcel Desaulniers ISBN: 068483197X Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: November, 1997 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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