Elizabeth Falkner's Demolition Desserts: Recipes from Citizen Cake
Author: Elizabeth Falkner
Over the past 10 years, Elizabeth Falkner has transformed her bakery from a tiny space in San Francisco's Mission district to the country's ultimate dessert destination. In DEMOLITION DESSERTS, she presents her favorite creations, from the cookies, brownies, and cupcakes beloved by Citizen Cake regulars to the plated desserts that have made her one of the most dynamic culinary talents of her generation. Beginning with a chapter devoted entirely to chocolate chip cookies, Elizabeth breaks down classic desserts and reconstructs them flavor by flavor, with stunning results. Even her most elaborate desserts have been adapted for the home kitchen, and each recipe is equipped with a detailed make-ahead timeline and a minimalist version for those pressed for time.
A debut collection of 65 signature dessert recipes from star pastry chef Elizabeth Falkner, owner of Citizen Cake, Citizen Cupcake, and Orson in San Francisco.
50 color photos accompany the main recipes in the book, while 50 location photos capture Elizabeth at work in her bakery.
Includes 10 anime-style sequences-starring Elizabeth's alter ego, Caremi-that playfully illustrate key techniques and ingredient information throughout the book.
Elizabeth was named Bon AppŠ¹tit's Pastry Chef of the Year in 2006 and was a finalist for the James
Beard Foundation's pastry chef of the year in 2005.
Publishers Weekly
San Francisco chef Falkner, a former art school student, thinks of dessert as an art form. For those who don't want to wait over an hour at her famed Hayes Valley restaurant/bakery Citizen Cake for her unique "dessert landscapes" and stunning parfaits, Falkner has penned home-kitchen versions of her edible masterpieces. Before diving into balsamic-apple reduction, eggless lemon curd and Concord grape tapioca, Falkner primes readers on ingredients and equipment. Though most recipes include "minimalist versions," this book is most geared toward seasoned bakers who won't quail at suggested time lines starting a month in advance or five-page instructions for Tiramisushi-cocoa roulade sponge cake with marsala mascarpone filling and mocha-rum dipping sauce, to be consumed via biscotti chopsticks. Amateurs may prefer to spend time at the back of the book with the somewhat more manageable recipes for cupcakes and drinks. Color photographs and anime-style drawings help capture the magic of Falkner's desserts, extravagant and emblematic of her commitment to "balance and restraint." (Oct.)
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Falkner is a well-known San Francisco-based pastry chef with a unique style. Citizen Cake was her first pastry shop, now expanded into a full-scale restaurant; she recently opened the smaller Citizen Cupcake. The term demolition dessertsrefers to her creative approach: she likes to "turn [a classic] dessert upside down and come up with a new way to look at it and eat it." Her exotic compositions have names like Suddenly Last Summer (peaches with wine and honey, walnut-thyme streusel, sweet cream reduction, and olive oil phyllo crisps), and the presentations are dramatic. She offers 65 recipes here, and although generally they are fairly complicated, most of them include make-ahead information along with a "minimalist version." The book features a cutting-edge design, and there are color photographs throughout. For most baking collections.
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Author: Jane Garmey
This book is a revelation to Americans who have never tasted real Cornish Pasties, Scotch Woodcock (a splendid version of scrambled eggs) or Brown Bread Ice Cream. From the sumptuous breakfasts that made England famous to the steamed puddings, trifles, meringues and syllabubs that are still renowned, no aspect of British cooking is overlooked. Soups, fish, meat and game, vegetables, sauces, high teas, scones, crumpets, hot cross buns, savories, preserves and sweets of all kinds are here in clear, precise recipes with ingredients and utensils translated into American terms.
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