Chocolate in Mesoamerica: A Cultural History of Cacao (Maya Studies)
Winner of the Society for Economic Botany’s Mary W. Klinger Book Award”A triumph of four-field anthropology. Botany, archaeology, linguistics, ethnography, and a small bit of physical anthropology are seamlessly united. . . . Without integration of the fields, few or none of the interesting conclusions in this work could have been reached.”–American Anthropologist”Contains a watershed of interesting and …
Are you Fixin’ to Eat? Fixin’ to Eat: Southern Cooking for the Southern at Heart invites you to pull up a chair at the Southern table and celebrate the heart of Southern cooking with time-honored dishes that reflect the South’s rich culinary traditions and innovations. Passed from generation to generation, these recipes tell the story of Southern food one …
Are you interested in chocolate and confections as a small business? There are many how-to books on starting an enterprise, but often the best advice comes directly from those with actual experience. Thus came the idea for this book; this “primer.” Why not ask chocolatiers firsthand what they have experienced and what they recommend? With this concept in …
Support your body in becoming an efficient fat burning machine using sweet and savory fat bombs that you will make you wonder whether you are actually on the Ketogenic diet, whether taking them as desserts or snacks!If you have recently started following the Ketogenic diet, you might be thinking that you’ve kissed sweet and savory treats goodbye. However, …
Chocolate has long been a favorite indulgence. But behind every chocolate bar we unwrap, there is a world of power struggles and political maneuvering over its most important ingredient: cocoa. In this incisive book, Kristy Leissle reveals how cocoa, which brings pleasure and wealth to relatively few, depends upon an extensive global trade system that exploits the labor of …
Make your decadent dreams come true with this chocolate-covered collection of more than 180 foolproof recipes that showcase the treasured dessert ingredient–from delicious morning baked goods and pick-me-up treats to rich after-dinner delights for special occasions.Chocolate may be the most universally loved (and craved) flavoring, and Everything Chocolate is the definitive guide to any sweet treat you can …
S’mores are an essential part of camping and can you imagine how much better you could make this tasty treat! With the help of this Smore Cookbook the answer is provided with 30 simple and easy smore recipe twists including holiday recipes and “spirited” s’mores – which will leave you begging for more! Try delectable desserts like S’mores …
Cooking with Chocolate: The Best Recipes and Tips from a Master Pastry Chef
Even experienced bakers can be intimidated by the demands of successfully working with chocolate, which requires an experienced touch and careful handling to achieve great results. You can teach yourself this complex and delicate art through hours of painful trial and error . . . or you can master the skills of cooking with chocolate with help from …
The Valrhona cooking school presents everything the amateur or professional baker needs to learn about cooking with chocolate. One hundred fundamental techniques and more than a hundred recipes are explained with step-by-step photographs and clear instructions. Home chefs will learn chocolate basics (tempering, ganaches,pralines), baker’s secrets (marbling, faultless cake crusts, beating egg whites), and how to make candy …
Ice Tray Treats: Effortless Chilled Desserts That Everyone Will Love
40 RECIPES FOR NO-BAKE SWEETS YOU CAN MAKE IN A SILICONE ICE TRAY Are you putting your ice trays to good use? Go beyond ice and start using them as molds for all kinds of delicious desserts. These quick, easy, kid-friendly recipes will arm you with ideas for birthday party sweets, refreshing treats for summer gatherings, or …