Paris Sweets Cookbook

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Description: Like all lovers of pastry and Paris, award-winning cookbook author Dorie Greenspan has been dazzled by the jewel-like creations displayed in bakery windows throughout the city and longed to be able to have them at home. Now, in a charmingly illustrated tribute to the capital of sweets, Greenspan presents a splendid assortment of recipes gathered from the finest Paris patisseries in a book that is as transporting to read as it is easy to use. 

Paris Sweets is a sumptuous guide to the art of French desserts: You'll find cookies, from the fabled madeleine, for which a trio of recipes is offered, to simple old-fashioned sable's, the ultimate French butter cookie. Tarts range from the famous Tatin, which began life as an upside-down error, to the delightful strawberry tart topped with homemade strawberry marshmallows (which are as much fun to make as they are to nibble). There are desserts best eaten with a spoon, like perfect creme brulee and chocolate bread pudding, and small pastries like Ali-Babas and soft apple cakes, which could pass as an American muffin's French cousin. The glorious cakes are as simple as the make-it-in-minutes lemon "weekend" cake, as right for Saturday tea as for Sunday brunch, or as sophisticated as the show-stopping Opera, a sleek chocolate creation. 

Paris Sweets brims with recipes even a novice can prepare, including snowy meringue puffs filled with whipped cream, bittersweet chocolate-chocolate chip cookies enlivened with salt and made just like the slice-and-bake kind, and a piquant whole- lemon tart, whose soft, tangy filling (it uses every part of the lemon but the pits!) is prepared with the push of a food-processor button. 

Dorie Greenspan has persuaded Paris's greatest pastry chefs to part with their most cherished recipes -- many for the first time -- and has thoroughly tested them for American home bakers. Evocative portraits of the chefs, stories about the shops (and addresses, of course), vignettes about Paris neighborhoods, and information about where to find authentic French ingredients in the United States make this is a deliciously comprehensive tour. For Francophiles, armchair travelers, and bakers of all skill levels, Paris Sweets brings home a taste of enchantment. 

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Condition: Good condition. Title page has a number written in ink and a ink stamp from a literary agent in Paris.