The Art of Chocolate Techniques and Recipies for Simply Spectacular Desserts and Confections
By Elaine Gonzalez
Photographs by Frankie Frankeny
This is not just a book of masterful recipes, tips, techniques, and meticulously detailed, easy-to-follow instructions. It is an extravagant paean to decadent desserts. Filled with luscious creations and lavish artistry-Chocolate Swan Truffles, Enchanted Forest Torte-this definitive guide to working with chocolate is unusual because it is written with beginners in mind. A cooking teacher with decades of experience, Elaine Gonz‡lez has devised innovative techniques to put the art of working with chocolate within everyone's reach. After mastering a few basics, any cook can create shimmering cakes, seductive truffles, and amazing chocolate sculptures. With The Art of Chocolate, even novices will soon roll, curl, twist, coax, and nudge chocolate to dizzying heights of fantasy.
Elaine Gonzalez is a Chicago-based chocolate expert and cooking teacher. Her chocolate creations have appeared in Chocolatier, Ladies' Home Journal, Better Homes & Gardens, Country Home, Bride's, and newspapers around the country. Her book Chocolate Artistry was a best-selling classic for almost a decade.
Frankie Frankeny is a San Francisco-based photographer whose work has illustrated many books, including Wookiee Cookies (0-8118-2184-6) and The Christmas Cookie Book (0-8118-3095-0).
1998 / 192 pp / Color photos and how-to shots throughout / 081181811X / pb / $24.95