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Chocolate Holidays: Unforgettable Desserts for Every Season
Contributor(s): Medrich, Alice (Author)

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 ISBN: 1579652905     ISBN-13: 9781579652906
Publisher: Artisan Publishers
OUR PRICE: $13.56  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: October 2005
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Annotation: Chocolate Holidays is the ultimate chocolate indulgence -- any time of year.
Fifty simple, elegant, amazing-tasting chocolate desserts -- for New Year's Day or Mother's Day, Passover or Christmas, or any day worth celebrating.
Chocolate secrets and her very favorite festive recipes -- from the award-winning & quot; queen of chocolate, & quot; Alice Medrich.
Includes Chocolate Notes to help bakers who want to substitute the new higher-percentage chocolates, as well as extended sections on ingredients, techniques, equipment, and innovative decorative touches.
Chocolate Holidays has everything necessary to sweeten any occasion -- for passionate dessert makers and once-a-year holiday bakers alike.
First published in hardcover as A Year in Chocolate (Time Warner, 2001)
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Cooking | Specific Ingredients - Chocolate
- Cooking | Holiday - General
- Cooking | Courses & Dishes - Desserts
Dewey: 641.637
LCCN: 2005045356
Physical Information: 0.57" H x 8.66" W x 9.46" L (1.48 lbs) 152 pages
Themes:
- Holiday - Easter
- Holiday - New Year's
- Holiday - Valentine's Day
- Holiday - Christmas
- Holiday - Independence Day
Features: Illustrated, Index, Price on Product, Table of Contents
Review Citations: Ingram Advance 10/01/2005 pg. 70
Kliatt 01/01/2006 pg. 38
 
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.
Publisher Description:
Dramatic, seductive, playful, infinite in its variety, otherworldly in its taste: It's chocolate, and here's all the impetus you need to indulge your passion for it every day of the year. The beloved Alice Medrich, renowned for impeccable recipes that produce stellar results, has written Chocolate Holidays especially for people who love to bake but don't have enough hours in the day. Without compromising on flavor, texture, or ingredients, she pares down the preparation steps, teaches us resraint, and comes up with fifty amazing recipes, each a little jewel of elegance and simplicty.

An ideal year in chocolate might start with a New Year's brunch starring Chocolate Blini with Berry Caviar. Then there are Valentine's Day chocolate scones and St. Patrick's Day Irish Coffee Chocolate Mousse. And of course any "holiday" your imagination can conjure up is a perfect reason to indulge: perhaps a decadently rich hot chocolate served in demitasse portions to exorcise those end-of-February blues.

Spring might whisper chocolate Giant Krispy Easter Treats or a Passover Chocolate Nut Sponge Torte, or white chocolate-glazed Apricot Orange Cupcakes for a wedding shower. Summer suggests fruit and ice cream desserts such as the Independence Day red, white, and blue sundaes, followed by autumn's pies and tarts laden with chocolate and nuts. And no matter what you've been putting on the table for Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays past, it will be out-chocolated by Alice's Chocolate Cranberry Pudding and her Chocolate Hazelnut Roulade--both unequivocally year-end musts.

In Chocolate Holidays, Medrich unlocks the secrets of our favorite sweet, offering chocolate desserts for every season, for every reason.

First published in hardcover as A Year in Chocolate (Warner Books, 2001)

Contributor Bio(s): Medrich, Alice: - Alice Medrich has won more cookbook-of-the-year awards and best in the dessert and baking category awards than any other author. She received her formal training at the prestigious École Lenôtre in France and is credited with popularizing chocolate truffles in the United States when she began making and selling them at her influential Berkeley dessert shop, Cocolat. She has devoted much of her career to teaching and sharing her expansive knowledge about baking. Find her on Instagram and Twitter @alicemedrich.
 
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