David Lebovitz Room For Dessert

Now available, Room For Dessert by pastry chef David Lebovitz presents a collection of over 100 recipes for innovative and easy-to-prepare desserts, from an exotic Tropical Tiramisù, a lofty Caramel- Chocolate Soufflé, a warm Red Wine and Apple Tart, and a sumptuous, fudgy Chocolate Orbit Cake that's virtually guaranteed to send chocolate lovers into orbit!

    With a foreward by the legendary Alice Waters, Room For Dessert now makes the exquisite creations that were served at Chez Panisse and Monsoon available to the home cook. Modern in their complexity of flavor, with the simple assumption that by pursuing the freshest and most flavorful ingredients, you and your guests will be rewarded with delicious, tasty desserts that are unfussy and unbeatable.

    With offerings such as moist Fresh Ginger Cake with Plum-Raspberry Compote, rich Coconut Tapioca Pudding with Tropical Fruits, and addictive Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookies, Room For Dessert offers recipes for nearly every dessert imaginable, including a chapter on dessert foundations with sabayon, caramel sauces, pastry doughs, frangipan, as well as a chapter devoted to easy to make at home liquors and preserves, perfect gifts for friends and family. An important chapter on selecting fresh fruit is also included, with color photographs, giving the reader valuable tips and advice on how (and when) to select and use the best produce available.

    The humble egg is also given it's reverence in chapters devoted to custards and ice creams. Who can resist a trembling, slippery smooth custard infused with the persuasive scent of black currant tea, or the exotic, yet comforting aroma of cardamom? Ice creams as familiar as Vanilla, as rich as Chocolate Gelato, comfortable as Butterscotch with Spiced Pecans, or as refreshing as Fresh Mint Sherbet to be served with figs roasted with honey and fragrant lemon peel.

    Room For Dessert is lavishly illustrated with stunning full-color photographs by Michael Lamotte, whose credits include Four Star Desserts, Stars Desserts, Chocolate and the Art of Low Fat Desserts and Master Chef's Cook Kosher. Over 50 photographs appear throughout the book, many shot at the modernist Eichler home of the author. A must for anyone interested in good cooking... and good eating!

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