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The Dessert Bible

The Best of American Home Cooking

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By Christopher Kimball

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On Sale
May 5, 2015
Page Count
416 pages
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
ISBN-13
9780316339193

Price

$20.00

Price

$22.00 CAD

Format

Trade Paperback

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Master chef and Cook’s Illustrated founder and editor Chris Kimball presents the best and easiest way to make more than 300 of America’s favorite desserts.

The Dessert Bible is the definitive dessert cookbook for the American home cook. Chris Kimball reviews equipment from mixers to rolling pins and discusses which are the best ingredients regarding types of flour, sugar, baking chocolate, and more. He explains basic techniques like beating and folding in egg whites, working with pie dough and folding flour into batters.

The recipes include layer cakes, pies, tarts, cookies, brownies, puddings, mousses, ice cream, sorbets, fruit desserts, sauces and frostings. In addition, Kimball offers a section on favorite restaurant desserts from around the country that can be made at home.

Genre:

  • Cooking
  • Cooking
  • Courses & Dishes
  • Desserts

Christopher Kimball's Milk Street is located in downtown Boston -- at 177 Milk Street -- and is home to a cooking school, a bimonthly magazine, and public television and radio shows. They are the authors of Milk Street: The New Home Cooking, Milk Street: Tuesday Nights, which won both the IACP and James Beard Awards for General Cooking, and Milk Street: The New Rules.

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Christopher Kimball

About the Author

Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street is located at 177 Milk Street in downtown Boston and is dedicated to changing the way America cooks with new flavor combinations and techniques learned around the world. Milk Street is home to Milk Street TV, a three-time Emmy Award–winning public television show, a James Beard Award–winning bimonthly magazine, an award-winning radio show and podcast, a cooking school and an online store with nearly 2,000 kitchen tools and ingredients. Milk Street’s fourteen cookbooks include Cookish, Vegetables and the James Beard–winning Tuesday Nights. Milk Street also invests in nonprofit outreach, partnering with FoodCorp, the Big Sister Association of Greater Boston and the Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester.

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