Chocolate [Paperback]

Christine France (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 2000

A chocolate lover's dream, this book is packed with over 50 recipes for chocolate cakes, hot and cold desserts, candies, and drinks with this most luxurious of ingredients.

Product Details

• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: Anness (February 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0754802620
• ISBN-13: 978-0754802624
• Product Dimensions: 12.7 x 9.2 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,263,311 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars The worst muffin recipe I've ever made, January 20, 2007

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E. Bauer (Sacramento, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Chocolate: Cooking with the World's Best Ingredient (Paperback)

I wish I had read the reader reviews of this book before attempting a recipe from it. I spent the afternoon making the chocolate chip muffins from the book and they turned out rubbery and tasteless, and looking nothing like the photo in the book. Not a good sign. And a waste of almost a pound of premium chocolate.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Don't waste your money on this, get a recognized classic!, December 18, 2006

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I. Seligman - See all my reviews

This review is from: Chocolate: Cooking with the World's Best Ingredient (Paperback)

This is an overpriced book of untested recipes that are shamelessly recycled/exchanged from many other books by writers France, and McFadden without even changing the same dreary photo or bad recipe. Such books by this duo include:
1. The Cook's Encyclopedia of Chocolate
2. Chocolate Fantasies
3. Chocolate Ecstacy
4. Ultimate Encyclopedia of Chocolate

This would not be such a bad thing, except the recipes in these author's books will rarely look as good as the pictures, and with the untested mishmash of ingredients, will not taste anywhere as good as they look.

The creations are made by professional food stylists, who sometimes add a bit more ingredients to their glossy photos than is ever in the recipes...that's your first warning.

If you go so far as to bake or otherwise create these, you will have your 2nd and last warning...and then it's too late...

Keep looking on Amazon, and buy a book from someone who isn't out to make 20 books from the same 200 barely tested or completely untested recipes.

Be happy with your cooking, and try instead such goodies as:

Art of Chocolate by Gonzalez
Truffles, Candies, and Confections by Carole Bloom
Chocolate Obsession by Michael Recchiuti
Pure Chocolate: Divine Desserts by Fran Bigelow
Bittersweet: Recipes and Tales from a Life in Chocolate by Alice Medrich

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars mmmmmmmmm chocolate!, July 9, 2005

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M. Sullivan "recipe seeker" (Davis, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Chocolate: Cooking with the World's Best Ingredient (Paperback)

This book is great for chocolate loving people. I have made several of the recipes which were simple and delicious, and won me praise by my friends and family. Some of the measurements are a little more difficult since I don't typically use ml, or grams to measure ingredients. Still, a great book to have when entertaining!