Chocolate

by Lora Brody

Book Overview

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0783502419
• ISBN13: 9780783502410
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Time Life Medical
• Length: 108 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.6" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 16 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 11 and higher

Customer Reviews

Great recipes for a chocolate lover

The book arrived on time in "like new" condition and has many great recipes for decadent chocolate treats.

Amazingly Delicious

Everything I have made so far has been incredible. The chocolate cheesecake recipe has to be the best cheesecake recipe in existence. However, you'd have to have a mighty big bread machine to make the recipes which say they can be made in a bread machine. So that technique hasn't worked for me, there was so much dough it really gummed up my machine. Otherwise, wow!!!

Worthy new book of largely new Chocolate Recipes

In a review of Alice Medrich's book, `Bittersweet', I said:"No one should try to do any serious work with chocolate without reading this book or another equally good book on the subject. One of the first things you learn in this book is that there are as many, if not more subtleties and ambiguities in the marketing of chocolate as there are in just about any other basic food product such as flour or olive oil."This book has an equally skillful introduction to dealing with chocolate. I even believe this book is a better introduction to working with chocolate than the title from Ms. Medrich due to Ms. Brody's exceptional ability to explain potentially difficult techniques. She is especially candid in saying that the first time you try some techniques like tempering chocolate, you may simply not succeed. But, she insists that you keep trying and with due diligence, you will succeed. This combination of clarity and honesty is worth a lot.This book is similar to Gale Gand's book `short + sweet' in the way it finds a place for itself in your daily family activities with partner and kids. It is also similar to Karen Baker's new book `Sweet Stuff' in its claiming to evoke a homegrown, American style of chocolate. All three books are worthy purchases that largely meet their objectives. But, they are not the kind of book which grabs you by the lapels and shakes you up with it's enthusiasm or insights or inspiration like, for example Wayne Harley Brachman's `American Desserts' or Sherry Yard's extraordinary new book `The Secrets of Baking'.The first crack in the premise of `Chocolate American Style' is the suggestion that Americans eat more chocolate than anyone else in the world. I just saw a statistic that indicates the English eat three times more chocolate then we colonists eat. Another lapse in the book's premise comes when the author devotes an entire chapter `Old World - New World' to chocolate laden versions of European classics such as Mandelbrot, Rugelach, Biscotti, Scones, Panini, and the quintessentially Austrian Linzer Torte. Various other recipes also cite French inspirations and how they can show us colonials a thing or two. The final indignity is the recipe devised to immortalize Russell Crowe, which incorporates as many Australian products as the author could fit into one recipe.Like Karen Baker's `American' baking book, a whole lot of the recipes in this book are author's originals rather than traditional American classics. In fact, one reality of contemporary cookbooks peeks out from some pages of this book in that it becomes clear that a lot of the recipes in the book are neither traditionally American nor written by the nominal author. Several recipes are original contributions by Susan Schwartz who is primarily credited in the Acknowledgments with Emmy Clausing as someone who researched, tested, and fine-tuned recipes.None of these pet peeves diminish the quality of the book. It is not the best book you can get on chocolate, but it is

The Wonderful Chocolate Cookbook

I am a serious baker and possess many chocolate books. Some of the ancient ones are fine books written by Austrian women with an empathy for the ingredient. Most of the more recent ones are rather pedestrian, pandering to passing (and passe) fashion and are not worth much more than a cursory glance. Some even try to make chocolate recipes low fat!! I must immediately exclude Nigella Lawson from those categories!This book, however, is a tantalising work of art, and indeed literature. I have been reading it compulsively since I got it a few days ago. I have tried several of the amazing recipes and they are even better than imagined. I fell priveleged to share the recipes that the author has collected over her wondrous career. BUY IT!!

This Cookbook is a Treat

I found this to be a great cookbook. The recipes are out of this world - - our favorites are chocolate pound cake and chocolate pudding. Williams-Sonoma and Lora Brody are the Dream Team of Cookbook Authors. Their recipes are beautifully written, always work and have gorgeous photos to boot. What's not to like?