Desserted: Recipes and Tales from an Island Chocolatier

by Kate Shaffer, Linda Greenlaw (Foreword by)

Overview

If you've ever had a fantasy of living on a Maine island, this book is for you. It,s just icing on the cake it that is also happens to involve chocolate. Kate Shaffer and her husband moved to remote Isle au Haut nearly seven years ago. Once there, they were inspired to open a chocolate company and cafe featuring delicious chocolate and fresh Maine ingredients. Now their products are shipped all over the world ~ and their island cafe is a true Maine destination. This armchair travel log and cookbook all in one describes the fantasies ~ and fantastic realities ~ of island life in Maine while featuring more than forty-five of Shaffer,s delicious recipes for her renowned chocolates and chocolate-inspired recipes from her seasonal cafe.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780892729944
Publisher:	Down East Books
Publication date:	11/01/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	176
File size:	7 MB

Editorial Reviews

California native Shaffer and her husband own Black Dinah Chocolatiers on Maine's Isle au Haut. In this anecdote-packed collection of truffles, cakes, cookies, and other treats, she paints a vivid picture of island life. But with only five to six recipes per chapter, this book is more of a niche filler than a stand-alone guide to chocolate. That said, Shaffer's confections can be made with conventional tools, and her unintimidating explanation of tempering and coating techniques is a great start for novices, who might move on to Andrew Garrison Shotts's Making Artisan Chocolates and Alice Medrich's Bittersweet.

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