Alice Medrich knows more about chocolate than almost anyone, and this book is full of superb recipes and tips for using everyones favorite ingredient: chocolate!

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Product Description

It is hard, today, to imagine a time when the word bittersweet was rarely spoken, when 70 percent of the chocolate purchased by Americans was milk chocolate. Today's world of chocolate is a much larger universe, where not only is the quality better and variety wider, but the very composition of the chocolate has changed.

To do justice to these new chocolates, which contain more pure chocolate and less sugar, we need a fresh approach to chocolate desserts—a new kind of recipe—and someone to crack the code for substituting one chocolate for another in both new and classic recipes. Alice Medrich, the "First Lady of Chocolate," delivers.

With nearly 150 recipes—each delicious and foolproof, no matter your level of expertise—BitterSweet answers every chocolate question, teaches every technique, confides every secret, satisfies every craving. You'll marvel that recipes as basic as brownies and chocolate cake, mint chocolate chip ice cream and chocolate mousse, can still surprise and excite you, and that soufflés, chocolate panna cotta, even pasta sauces can be so dramatically flavorful.

For the last thirty years, Alice Medrich has been learning, teaching, and sharing what she loves and understands about chocolate. BitterSweet is the culmination of her life in chocolate thus far: revolutionary recipes, profound knowledge, and charming tales of a chocolate life.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #77695 in Books
• Published on: 2003-11
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 384 pages

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Customer Reviews

Bittersweet
This is an excellent chocolate dessert recipe book. A perfect book for the finest chefs.

Great!!
I have used many recipes in this recipe book COUNTLESS times already. My family especially loves the bittersweet chocolate ice cream recipe and i have made that one alone many many times!!! The freezer is now the local gathering to see if more ice cream has been made.

A really great book; i enjoyed reading about her early history in the chocolate world and i HIGHLY recommend this book to EVERYONE!!
Jessica

The best chocolate dessert book
I love this book - great recipes with lots of options - especially if you are lactose intolerant like me. Favorites are the mousse and marquis - brownies and peanut butter chocolate torte are winners too. I've also had success substituting sugar-free chocolate and splenda to make near zero carb versions of the mousse and marquis and tortes.