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    <body><![CDATA[This is a cookbook you can read!  I just made <br/>her blueberry pie recipe and OH MY GOD the woman<br/>is a muse of absolute pleasure. <br/><br/>This cookbook is almost a cooking class. There are pages<br/>of her thoughts and intentions for each recipe and<br/>she is a great advocate of enjoying th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30631445">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The best cheesecake recipe ever!  I've made over 1/2 of the recipes in the book, and they work!  Don't subsitute ingredients though, Dorie gives plenty of substitution options for playing around.  They're not low fat recipes, but these are standards that will always work.  I highly recommend the coo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8973260">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Baking: From My Home to Yours is my hands down favorite sweet baking book, and that's saying something, as I have 50+ of them. Every recipe I've tried has been a complete success. It's so good that it inspired me to join my first blog event (the Tuesdays with Dorie baking group), just for an excuse ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24101093">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I'd give this one six stars if I could. Haven't made a recipe from this one yet that hasn't been a success. The BEST cheesecake ever. Reworked the caramel pumpkin tart that is now my Thanksgiving mainstay.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[My other go-to baking / dessert cook book, along with In the Sweet Kitchen. Dorie can sometimes go overboard with tweaks and add ins - for example, all the brownie recipes seem to have chunks of 14 different kinds of chocolate, nuts, chopped up candy bars, etc and no recipe for a basic cakey brownie...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80287311">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Amazing, intelligent, unintimidating.  Made the lemon poppy seed muffins and they were wonderful.  Can't wait to try more recipes!  I *must* own it.  ]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&lt;DIV&gt;Dorie Greenspan has written recipes for the most eminent chefs in the world: Pierre Hermé, Daniel Boulud, and arguably the greatest of them all, Julia Child, who once told Dorie, “You write recipes just the way I do.” Her recipe writing has won widespread praise for its literate curiosity and “patient but exuberant style.” (One hard-boiled critic called it “a joy forever.”) In Baking: From My Home to Yours, her masterwork, Dorie applies the lessons from three decades of experience to her first and real love: home baking. The 300 recipes will seduce a new generation of bakers, whether their favorite kitchen tools are a bowl and a whisk or a stand mixer and a baker’s torch.<br/><br/>Even the most homey of the recipes are very special. Dorie’s favorite raisin swirl bread. Big spicy muffins from her stint as a baker in a famous New York City restaurant. French chocolate brownies (a Parisian pastry chef begged for the recipe). A dramatic black and white cake for a “wow” occasion. Pierre Hermé’s extraordinary lemon tart.<br/>The generous helpings of background information, abundant stories, and hundreds of professional hints set Baking apart as a one-of-a-kind cookbook. And as if all of this weren’t more than enough, Dorie has appended a fascinating minibook, A Dessertmaker’s Glossary, with more than 100 entries, from why using one’s fingers is often best, to how to buy the finest butter, to how the bundt pan got its name.&lt;/DIV&gt;]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[An excellent, excellent book. Lots of different recipes for the baker who wants to dabble in a variety of fun challenges. Not a great book for the novice baker as there is no chapter or introduction - not even a description on how Greenspan measures her flour, which is pretty critical in baking. An ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50158898">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I saw this book on an email from NPR's Lynne Rosetto Casper as one for people who like baking.  She had some interesting ideas in her recipes.  A lot of fruit and fruit purees for texture, not taste.  The cake on the cover looked amazing, but it was probably the only recipe in the book that I would ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77739737">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[If I was to recommend one baking book to buy in your life, this would be it. It's fantastic. Dorie gives detailed instructions, beautiful photographs and versatile recipes that can be adapted to taste. I especially love that she offers descriptions on how to freeze parts of the recipes. It's been a ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39694616">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[what can I say about this book that hasn't already been said?<br/>The BEST cookbook I have ever picked up from the library.I make her desserts every sunday and also thru the week.<br/>When the kids asl me what's for supper they also ask if we are having one of &quot;Dories desserts&quot; <br/>lov...]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the one book I go to when I need anything baked.  Her recipes are fabulous and are very easy to read and understand (except for the Malt chocolate cookies, she neglected to state what temp you needed to bake them at-she clarified on her website that it is 350 degrees).]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I've made several recipes out of this book. The Sable cookies have to be my favorite so far. The pictures are gorgeous and the recipes are easy to follow. She includes a lot of tips and ideas for exploring variations. Highly recommend this book if you love to bake.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Baking: From My Home to Yours]]>
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    <![CDATA[&lt;DIV&gt;Dorie Greenspan has written recipes for the most eminent chefs in the world: Pierre Hermé, Daniel Boulud, and arguably the greatest of them all, Julia Child, who once told Dorie, “You write recipes just the way I do.” Her recipe writing has won widespread praise for its literate curiosity and “patient but exuberant style.” (One hard-boiled critic called it “a joy forever.”) In Baking: From My Home to Yours, her masterwork, Dorie applies the lessons from three decades of experience to her first and real love: home baking. The 300 recipes will seduce a new generation of bakers, whether their favorite kitchen tools are a bowl and a whisk or a stand mixer and a baker’s torch.<br/><br/>Even the most homey of the recipes are very special. Dorie’s favorite raisin swirl bread. Big spicy muffins from her stint as a baker in a famous New York City restaurant. French chocolate brownies (a Parisian pastry chef begged for the recipe). A dramatic black and white cake for a “wow” occasion. Pierre Hermé’s extraordinary lemon tart.<br/>The generous helpings of background information, abundant stories, and hundreds of professional hints set Baking apart as a one-of-a-kind cookbook. And as if all of this weren’t more than enough, Dorie has appended a fascinating minibook, A Dessertmaker’s Glossary, with more than 100 entries, from why using one’s fingers is often best, to how to buy the finest butter, to how the bundt pan got its name.&lt;/DIV&gt;]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Never, NEVER get a book with 472 pages of dessert reipes unless you want to make a lot of desserts. I tried the Lenox biscotti and they were FABULOUS! Now I want to move to Texas for those fresh roadside peaches o make the honey peach ice cream.]]></body>
    
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