Product Description

Deep, dark, and fudgy. Moist and luxurious. Seductively rich.

For award–winning author Lisa Yockelson, chocolate has long been an obsession, a craving, a calling. Now she fulfills the calling in ChocolateChocolate, a dream cookbook that blends how–to information and more than 200 sublime recipes with a delicious collection of chocolate essays and reminiscences.

ChocolateChocolate reveals baking with chocolate as a sweet and simple art, one that is both rewarding and accessible. The book′s unique "baking diary" format arranges chapters by theme, reflecting Yockelson′s fresh and personal approach to baking. From comforting Brownie Style favorites to dashing Double Chocolate and Mudslide confections, temptation beckons from every page.

The book can be used in several ways – to find a recipe for a sweet that′s just packed with chocolate, to learn how chocolate behaves in the baking process, to gather information on the various types and uses of chocolate, and, of course, to simply rejoice in what surely must be the most luxurious of all flavors.

Complemented by 155 stunning color photographs that artfully express her specialties in all their chocolate glory, here is a timeless reference all home bakers will return to again and again as a source of instruction, inspiration...and sheer indulgence.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #644681 in Books
• Published on: 2005-09-23
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 512 pages

Review
"Good results are...assured by the excellent and reliable baker..." (New York Times Book Review, December 4, 2005)

"...encyclopedic and deeply personal, combining detailed information, clear instructions and engaging anecdotes...is destined for a long life on every serious baker′s shelf." (Publishers Weekly, May 9, 2005)

From the Inside Flap
Deep, dark, and fudgy. Moist and luxurious. Seductively rich.

for award–winning author Lisa Yockelson, chocolate has long been an obsession, a craving, a calling. Now she fulfills the calling in ChocolateChocolate, a dream cookbook that blends how–to information and more than 200 sublime recipes with a delicious collection of chocolate essays and reminiscences.

ChocolateChocolate reveals baking with chocolate as a sweet and simple art, one that is both rewarding and accessible. The book′s unique "baking diary" format arranges chapters by theme, reflecting Yockelson′s fresh and personal approach to baking. From comforting Brownie Style favorites to dashing Double Chocolate and Mudslide confections, temptation beckons from every page.

The book can be used in several ways—to find a recipe for a sweet that′s just packed with chocolate, to learn how chocolate behaves in the baking process, to gather information on the various types and uses of chocolate, and, of course, to simply rejoice in what surely must be the most luxurious of all flavors.

Complemented by 155 stunning color photographs that artfully express her specialties in all their chocolate glory, here is a timeless reference all home bakers will return to again and again as a source of instruction, inspiration . . . and sheer indulgence.

BEN FINK is an award–winning New York City–based photographer who captures art images that fuse food and people as well as food alone. His work has appeared in Saveur, Town & Country, and Food & Wine. He weaves precision and an elegant sensitivity into his craft, composing visuals that are authentic and romantically ethereal.

From the Back Cover
For as long as I can remember, the flavor of chocolate has been an obsession, a craving, a calling.

I believe that chocolate is a trophy flavor.

Who would turn down an enormous cookie, all buttery and chewy, touched with brown sugar and stubby with chips or chunks of chocolate?

Chocolate is an elemental flavor. In a compelling way, its presence draws you into a recipe and, at a pivotal moment, into dessert.

When chocolate is combined with familiar baking staples, something miraculous happens: what you pull from the oven is irresistible, darkly alluring, astonishing.

In its every essence and form, when it′s chocolate, it dazzles and enchants.

And isn′t that divine?