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Paris Sweets: Great Desserts from the City's Best Pastry Shops
The prize-winning author of Baking with Julia (more than 350,000 copies sold), among other cookbook classics, celebrates the sweet life with recipes and lore from Paris's finest patisseries.
Like most lovers of pastry and Paris, Dorie Greenspan has always marveled at the jewel-like creations displayed in bakery windows throughout the City of Light. Now, in a charmingly ill...more
Like most lovers of pastry and Paris, Dorie Greenspan has always marveled at the jewel-like creations displayed in bakery windows throughout the City of Light. Now, in a charmingly ill...more
Hardcover, 224 pages
Published
November 12th 2002
by Clarkson Potter
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This is a small book, but big on information. It is a collection of quality, representative recipes from Paris patisseries and bakeries, all made workable for home cooks in American kitchens. Along with these great recipes is plenty of information about French baking styles and vignettes about many of the best patisseries in Paris. She does a great job of capturing the personality of the bakers she writes about. The recipe for Korova/World Peace cookies alone is worth the price of the book. Thes...more
Part cookbook, part bakery (and baked good) history, this is a really wonderful book that gives you the information to recreate Paris' best pastries at home. It would also be great if you were planning a visit to the city, since then you'd know where to stop! Not for amateurs (I tried some of the cookie recipes, but the rest were pretty tough), the recipes are delicious and she adds suggestions for 'An American In Paris' if you'd like to be less traditional with your fillings, presentation, etc....more
I've only made the madeleines thus far, but they came out beautifully and were nummy =D
EDIT: Overall, absolutely lovely book, and great reading for anyone with a particular fondness for pastry shops (but of course, you could have guessed that...). My one complaint is that the recipes aren't as "everyday" as those in her classic Baking: From My Home to Yours, so I wouldn't want it as a recipe book per say, and there isn't enough other text to really justify more than a library jaunt.
EDIT: Overall, absolutely lovely book, and great reading for anyone with a particular fondness for pastry shops (but of course, you could have guessed that...). My one complaint is that the recipes aren't as "everyday" as those in her classic Baking: From My Home to Yours, so I wouldn't want it as a recipe book per say, and there isn't enough other text to really justify more than a library jaunt.
more than a cookbook- the anecdotes and illustrations that accompany the recipes make the book. the korova cookies are *unbelievable* though and the description of montmartre square will make you want to rush out and buy a pound of almond paste (then, sticker shock). pitch perfect food writing.
World Peace/Korova Cookies - best chocolate cookies I have ever eaten. Easy to make. No expensive/hard to find ingredients. I'm keeping a stash in my freezer for chocolate emergencies. My new favorite dessert to bring to people.
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My first Dorie Greenspan cookbook....wonderful book, great recipes. She includes weights for ingredients which is a big plus.
Jul 25, 2011
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What is the purpose of a cookbook about French pastries without pictures?
*le sigh* What I would give for a croissant right now...
My mom gave me this book, which means I cherish it. I don't, however, use many of the recipes. Most involve several steps and fancy, expensive ingredients. I'm too distracted and poor for all that. These recipes are for when you want to impress someone with delicate petits fours or an elegant cake. Not suggested when you just want a pan of gooey brownies or some cookies in under an hour.
Absolutely superb. The recipes are easy to follow and I love the anecdotes Greenspan includes with all of the desserts. I was a little weary about baking some items because there are no photographs (only cartoon sketches), but so far Greenspan hasn't failed me in my efforts to recreate a French patisserie at home. My favorite baking book by far!
What a fabulous dessert cookbook. I want to try every shop and every sweet.
I wish this book had pictures! I liked a lot of the recipes and I'm planning to make some eventually, but I like to have pictures to entice me and to get an idea of whether I'm doing it right or not!
Delish recipes for madeleines, strawberry tart, hot chocolate, creme brulee.
This is one of my favorite cookbooks. Everything I've made has been wonderful.
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Called a culinary guru by the New York Times, Dorie Greenspan is the author of the James Beard Awardwinning Baking: From My Home to Yours, which inspired the creation of the online baking community Tuesdays with Dorie. She has been passionately involved with French food for the last three decades. With Pierre Herm, she wrote Desserts by Pierre Herm, winner of an IACP Cookbook of the Year Award, an...more
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