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Title: Desserts to Die for by Marcel Desaulniers, Michael Grand ISBN: 0-684-81139-1 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 1995 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.45 (11 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Great dessert book
Comment: I love 2 things about this book. 1) all recipes were tested using supermarket ingredients, and tools. 2) The desserts are impressive. You will not be sorry. I'm glad I have this in my collection.
The only thing that keeps me from using this book often is the recipes are time intensive. They literally take HOURS to prepare from start to finish. I prepare them over 2 days.
Note: be sure you have a heady duty mixer.
Rating: 5
Summary: The best innovative desserts that your friends will rave abo
Comment: This book has many dessert recipes that your friends will rave about for weeks to come. The Cranberry recipe is to die for.
Rating: 5
Summary: 5-star desserts in a 5-star book
Comment: Others have noted that Desaulniers is a master of marketing, and it's true--but his recipes WORK and make absolutely stunning presentations. If you need a special occasion dessert--perhaps one to propose by? perhaps one to celebrate the birth of a child?--you can't go wrong choosing one of Desaulniers' desserts from "Desserts to Die For."
Desaulniers encourages "mise en place" (the French culinary term for "everything in its place," or setting out all ingredients before ever beginning the recipe), which I admire, and he instructs his readers--kindly, politely, but firmly--to read each recipe through from start to finish before beginning. This is good advice in any cooking situation, but it makes strong sense with Desaulniers' recipes, which tend to be extremely detailed. Some cooks might find this annoying, but there are others--myself among them--who understand that this concentration on every little tiny thing means that Desaulniers recognizes the difference between a pretty good dessert and a great one. And he wants you to prepare nothing but great ones!
Desaulniers' personal dessert philosophy may be best expressed by the W. Somerset Maugham quotation with which he heads the introduction: "Excess on occasion is exhilarating; it keeps moderation from becoming a habit." And are these recipes excessive in nearly every way! Desaulniers wisely avoids giving calorie counts, fat content, etc. for each recipe, and concentrates instead on seducing his readers into wanting to make each and every dessert so sumptuously photographed by Michael Grand. The names are rich and evocative as the dishes themselves--Tuxedo Truffle Torte, Chocolate Voodoo Cake, Mocha Almond Praline Snap, Chocolate Caramel Hazelnut Damnation, Trick or Treat Ice Cream, "24" Carrot Cake, Wild Orchid, Chocolate Exquisite Pain (yikes!), Chocolate Resurrection, and White Chocolate Lullaby are but a few of the many tempting offerings herein.
There are many non-chocolate desserts in this book, but it's clear that Desaulniers is most excited by chocolate anything--it sets his heart to soaring, his brain to feverish activity, and his hands to creating something wonderful for all of us to try.
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Title: Death by Chocolate : The Last Word on a Consuming Passion by Marcel Desaulniers ISBN: 0847815641 Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications Pub. Date: 15 May, 1993 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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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: Death by Chocolate Cakes : An Astonishing Array of Chocolate Enchantments by Marcel Desaulniers ISBN: 0688162975 Publisher: Morrow Cookbooks Pub. Date: 05 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Death By Chocolate Cookies by Marcel Desaulniers ISBN: 068483197X Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 01 November, 1997 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: A Year in Chocolate : Four Seasons of Unforgettable Desserts by Alice Medrich ISBN: 0446526649 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 24 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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