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Chez Panisse Desserts: A Cookbook Paperback – November 22, 1994
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“Lindsey Shere’s desserts are poetic and beautiful. . . . She is a genius at the creation of subtle flavors and aromas.”—Elizabeth David
Lindsey Shere, the longtime pastry chef of Chez Panisse, the legendary restaurant founded by Alice Waters, presents her renowned dessert recipes. Classic in inspiration, innovative in execution, the collection builds from recipes for basic pastries, cookies, cakes, and creams to an array of sophisticated and sumptuous finales. The result is a revelation of color, flavor, and texture that complement seasonal menus: an autumnal Chartreuse Ice Cream and Figs in Caramel; a winter counterpoint of Pink Grapefruit and Champagne Sorbet; the riotous berry creations of the spring—tarts, pies, shortcakes, curds, and fools; and the Sunset Bombe of summer. Lindsey Shere conveys the intricacies of her technique with extraordinary clarity and precision.
For the professional chef or dedicated home cook, Chez Panisse Desserts will expand the repertoire and, in the Chez Panisse tradition, inspire new uses for the freshest ingredients nature has to offer.
- Print length352 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherRandom House
- Publication dateNovember 22, 1994
- Dimensions7.06 x 0.95 x 9.04 inches
- ISBN-100679755713
- ISBN-13978-0679755715
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- Publisher : Random House; First Edition (first pb) (November 22, 1994)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 352 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0679755713
- ISBN-13 : 978-0679755715
- Item Weight : 1.4 pounds
- Dimensions : 7.06 x 0.95 x 9.04 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #63,898 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #28 in Pastry Baking (Books)
- #38 in Frozen Dessert Recipes
- #220 in Vegan Cooking (Books)
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Alice Waters is the visionary chef and owner of Chez Panisse in Berkeley, California. She is the author of four cookbooks, including Chez Panisse Vegetables and Fanny at Chez Panisse. In 1994 she founded the Edible schoolyard at Berkeley's Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School, a model curriculum that integrates organic gardening into academic classes and into the life of the school; it will soon incorporate a school lunch program in which students will prepare, serve, and share food they grow themselves, augmented by organic dairy products, grains, fruits, vegetables, meat, and fish - all locally and sustainably produced.
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Customers find the recipes in the book good and time-consuming. They also appreciate the great pastry cheg. However, some customers feel the book is very doable with no pictures.
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Customers find the recipes in the book good, but time-consuming and involved. They also say the book has a lot of classic tart, cobbler, and related recipes.
"...This book has a lot of classic tart, cobbler and related recipes. I don't bake and use this book solely for fruit sherbets and ice creams!..." Read more
"...Many of the recipes are classics or variations on classic desserts. Also, all of the ingredients called for are traditional, real ingredients...." Read more
"I thought that some of the recipes sounded great, and the procedures are generally clearly described...." Read more
"I bought this years ago, loaned/ lost it, loved it. Beautiful recipes, sorted by type of fruit. Very doable" Read more
Customers find the dessert in the book great.
"...example, there's a recipe for cognac caramel sauce which is quite good on cheesecake and not to mention a cake as well , if you switch out the..." Read more
"This book has the best tasting deserts, a little wordy for the professional chef, well suited for the home maker...." Read more
"great pastry cheg, great book..." Read more
"Great dessert book, awful format..." Read more
Customers find the book very doable, simple, and easy to follow. They also appreciate the differing recipes and strong attention to technique.
"...The differing recipes and strong attention to technique provide a clinic on balancing acidity through lemon peel, sweetness through sugar, and..." Read more
"...so pay close attention to the final results description... Simplicity at its best." Read more
"...that some of the recipes sounded great, and the procedures are generally clearly described...." Read more
"...Beautiful recipes, sorted by type of fruit. Very doable" Read more
Customers find the illustrations in the book lacking.
"...No pictures, so pay close attention to the final results description... Simplicity at its best." Read more
"...However, there are no photos in the book, only a few black and white line drawings...." Read more
"...The recipes are better than three stars, but the format and utter lack of photos make it not really a four, either, so I made a choice and rounded up." Read more
"Not at all what I expected from a Chez P cookbook. Very few illustrations,..." Read more
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For the past two years, I've been following Shere's inspiring book religously in making sherbets and ice creams from whatever's fresh at the Union Square Greenmarket on a given Saturday. I've made wild plum sherbet, nectarine sherbet, apricot sherbet, apricot ice cream, peach ice cream, blueberry ice cream, raspberry sherbet, strawberry sherbet, strawberry ice cream and even coconut (though those weren't grown locally). Each one has been great, and I'm only using a fifty dollar Krups ice cream maker. The differing recipes and strong attention to technique provide a clinic on balancing acidity through lemon peel, sweetness through sugar, and texture through blending and straining.
While the first recipe I tried (a citrus sherbet) was good, it required obvious tweaking to be *very* good, and called for long streaks of zest solely for the sake of appearance. And that was when I realized that these were largely untested recipes. When you put this into the ice cream maker, all the long strands of zest get hung up on the dasher, and wind up in clumps.
This doesn’t mean that nothing was tested, just that a small number were, and all the rest are just variations on a theme. There are some specious comments (“The apple is the oldest fruit known to man.”) sprinkled throughout the book, but those are mostly just annoying.
Either no one read this through enough to give any constructive criticism, or the author (who is NOT Alice Waters, but a pastry chef at the restaurant) simply ignored it.
The recipes are better than three stars, but the format and utter lack of photos make it not really a four, either, so I made a choice and rounded up.
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While the first recipe I tried (a citrus sherbet) was good, it required obvious tweaking to be *very* good, and called for long streaks of zest solely for the sake of appearance. And that was when I realized that these were largely untested recipes. When you put this into the ice cream maker, all the long strands of zest get hung up on the dasher, and wind up in clumps.
This doesn’t mean that nothing was tested, just that a small number were, and all the rest are just variations on a theme. There are some specious comments (“The apple is the oldest fruit known to man.”) sprinkled throughout the book, but those are mostly just annoying.
Either no one read this through enough to give any constructive criticism, or the author (who is NOT Alice Waters, but a pastry chef at the restaurant) simply ignored it.
The recipes are better than three stars, but the format and utter lack of photos make it not really a four, either, so I made a choice and rounded up.
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