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  • Hardcover: 304 pages
  • Publisher: Little, Brown & Company; 1 edition (2 May 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0316357413
  • ISBN-13: 978-0316357418
  • Product Dimensions: 27.9 x 22.1 x 3.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 326,834 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Whether you are an expert in the dessert kitchen or a beginner with a desire for the delicious this collection will introduce you to the myriad delights of Pierre Herme's desserts, his unusual juxtapositions of ingredients, his conjurer's touch with textures, and his perfect pitch when it comes to sweetness, tartness and "chocolatey-ness". The book provides recipes for the simplest chocolate truffle as well as the luxuriously soft and rich Suzy's Cake, which is spectacularly delicious yet quite simple to make. Through more than 75 recipes, readers will be able to taste chocolate in all its states - hot and cold, creamy and crunchy, smooth and custardy, thick and chewy, bittersweet and sweet, dark, milk and white. Finally, there are the indispensable Base Recipes and a Dictionary of Terms, Techniques, Equipment and Ingredients. Together they form a complete course in chocolate dessert artistry.


About the Author

Herme is a fourth-generation pastry chef. Raised in Alsace, he aprenticed to the legendary Gaston Lenotre when he was just 14 and at 24 took over the famed pastry kitchens of Fauchon in Paris. In '97 he was decorated as a Chevalier of Arts and letters and named France's Pastry Chef of the Year.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Flat zero, 3 Nov 2007
By Mr. George Baker (London) - See all my reviews
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I suppose and perhaps, people will be drawn to Pierre on the basis of his reputation. I sadly am now disavowed of this. From a marketing point of view this book will probably be superficially attractive and a logical expansion of Pierre's reportoire.
Unfortunately it proved to be in the same vane as Danni Minogogue, Rick Astley, John Major and Jamie Oliver in its mediocrity but worse... and by means of a tested example...the recipes (reported in the third person) obviously have not been subject to any cursory scrutiny.
I have now tried Pierre's "inside-out" puff pastry exhausting at least 5 kg of butter and a mountain of flour from various sources and a range of temperatures not called for in modern culinary practice.

Whereas I understand the difficulty of this pinnacle of dough's I challenge ANYBODY to achieve even a satisfactory product using Pierre's 'novel' approach. I hesitate using the F word, but faux springs to mind. I could not possibly recommend this nonsense. Stick to Roux brothers..It's damn hard but at least it's not disingenous.
Marketing gone mad. 1 star- the minimum i could give, this is NOT a stellar product
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