 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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