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Books : Charlie Trotter's Desserts |
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Books : Charlie Trotter's Desserts |
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Dewey Decimal Number: 641.86 EAN: 9780898158151 ISBN: 089815815X Label: Ten Speed Press Manufacturer: Ten Speed Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 240 Publication Date: March 01, 2004 Publisher: Ten Speed Press Release Date: March 01, 2004 Sales Rank: 586891 Studio: Ten Speed Press Editorial Review: Related Items:
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 Rating:  - Great Photo Essay...But it ends there. Like the others before me, this book leaves a bit to be desired. The recipes require a pastry certification just to attempt. I have one and I still wouldn't try most of these in my spare time. They require great skill and exotic ingredients in most cases. Nobody will find this book useful for casual dessert needs. The photos, on the other hand are incredibly beautiful. This book *can* inspire. I do keep this book easily at hand for guests to drool over. I just prepare something uch more simplistic, yet delicious in it's own right. If you like awe insipiring dessert pictures, this is your book. If you want awe insipiring desserts you can actually prepare, you are better served with something like "The Williams-Sonoma Collection: Dessert" Rating:  - Great photos--flawed recipesMy husband is a chef, I cook and bake often, and was even a personal chef. We've tried two of these recipes so far and neither have worked! One of them was completely off in the dough and couldn't possibly have worked and the other we are still working on. It's for a portion of a recipe that has toffee. We have resorted to finding another toffee recipe online and will try to make that and incorporate it in the recipe. It is very disappointing! I've tried this portion 3 times now with no luck. Thats just not right. Buy this book only for the photos and try to make them by using other recipes that you know and trust or use a reputable site with user reviews. We've ate at Trotters and it was good, but we've both had better meals for less money. Rating:  - inspirational dessertsSome cookbooks are meant as much for inspiration as they are for actual cooking...moreover, some cookbooks aren't for the normal home cook. I was a pastry chef and made some of these recipes. In that context, it is an excellent book, and probably my favorite of the Trotter lineup. Really, these were his pastry chef's recipes, so perhaps that says something about my impressions of his food. An experienced homecook could make these recipes as well, but please know going in, that if you are not somewhat skilled in the pastry arts, you might find the book frustrating (but beautiful). Rating: - Useful only for photos & inspirationI can say that I am a reasonably competent home chef with an above-average knowledge of technique and most necessary equipment to get the job done. Having said that, I was impressed with the photos of nearly every featured recipe in this book and find the recipes to be admirably aggressive in their taste and texture contrasts. The recipes, however, are nearly all flawed in some significant manner in that following them verbatim will result in poor results. Even when this is not the case, I find these recipes to be "out of whack" from a taste perspective by any gastronome's standards and in need of serious tweaking. If you have good kitchen skills and seek to be inspired by the ideas in this book, then I would suggest it (USED!!) ... otherwise, there are much better cookbooks that will yield far superior results.
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