My Cooking Class Chocolate Basics
80 Recipes Step-by-step
$26.99
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
21 October 2010
Summary
Home cooks will have more fun baking with chocolate when they use this highly visual cookbook. Chocolate Basics makes cooking with chocolate easy, and the results are consistently tasty too. The pictorial format of each recipe takes the mystery out of working with chocolate for beginners. . Basic creams, ganaches and mousses . Fondants and other soft chocolates . Cakes . Chic chocolates, including truffles and squares . Special dessert mousses . Crisp on the outside and soft on the inside . Childhood favourites, like lollipops, dipped candies on a stick and cookies. . Some of the down-home treats and sophisticated desserts are: Pralines . Chocolate decorations . Cupcakes . Brownies . Chocolate chip cookies . Easy macaroons . Spiced hot chocolate . Autumn layer cake . Chocolate eclairs . White chocolate panacotta . Caramel nut tartlets . Tiramisu . Chocolate sorbet. The My Cooking Class series takes a refreshing approach to learning the art of home cooking. The recipes are presented in complete visual sequences from start to finish, and every ingredient and every step is shown from above in full colour so it’s as true to life as possible - just like a real cooking course. Written instructions accompany each recipe, and specialized tasks, such as making homemade pasta, are clearly demonstrated. Variations, notes and glossaries are welcome additions to each class. My Cooking Class replicates a professional cooking course and will transform how home cooks learn to prepare dishes and meals. Every ingredient, pot, pan and tool is shown, not just described, making this new visual cookbook format deliciously simple. ILLUSTRATIONS Throughout
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781554077588 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1554077583 |
| Author: | Orathay Guillamont, Vania Nikolcic |
| Publisher: | Firefly Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Firefly Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 21 October 2010 |
| Weight: | 885g |
| Dimensions: | 190mm x 240mm |
| Series: | My Cooking Class |
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Critics Review
Owing to the popularity of food-focused TV programming, the effective arrangement of the “My Cooking Class” series (which also includes Steaming, Chocolate, Middle Eastern, and Pasta Basics) will have you wondering why it has taken cookbooks so long to get visual. Beyond a one-page preface, an ingredient index, and concisely measured instructions, you won’t find much text here, but this does not mean the books lack detail. Each recipe is pictured step-by-step with the crisply reductive clarity of a minimalist still life…. This series of stripped-down pictorials worth a thousand words is the missing link between elementally vague text-based cookbooks and video instruction you can’t slow down enough or take into the kitchen. Elegant design you can’t help but devour. Highly recommended for all experience levels.–Ben Malczewski “Library Journal” (1/1/2011 12:00:00 AM)
This is a series by various authors with complete (and I mean complete) step-by-step and how-to colour photos to describe every conceivable step in every conceivable process. Each with 70 to 97 recipes. These books are extremely clear in presentation, right down to photos of egg yolks (with every other ingredient) so you don’t accidentally reach for, say, Palmolive dishwashing soup when you should be making Bearnaise sauce. Some might think the series is too dumbed-down but, at only $25 a copy, I think these books are perfect for entry-level cooks who want to move beyond Kraft Dinner to discover that homemade lasagna does not always have to be made with dried gypsum board. I’d be tempted to give the whole set as a gift to the right person.–Byron Eade “Ottawa Citizen” (11/25/2010 12:00:00 AM)
This series includes books on Pasta, Vegetable, Chocolate, Sauce, Steaming, Middle Eastern, and Indian Basics. Each book includes 60-100 recipes, each with not just an image of the finished product, but photos of every step. Perfect for the family chef, foodie, or cookbook collector.–James Sanford “Battle Creek Enquirer” (1/3/2013 12:00:00 AM)
Orathay Guillamont
Orathay Guillamont is a professional chef.
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