Field Guide to Cookies: How to Identify and Bake Virtually Every Cookie Imaginable (Paperback)

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Product Description

What puts the snap in gingersnaps? How do you bake the perfect pinwheel? What's the secret to foolproof friands? Discover these answers and more with Field Guide to Cookies a handy pocket reference to more than 100 cookie recipes complete with helpful baking notes and fascinating historical trivia (the first known brownie recipe was published in the 1897 Sears Roebuck catalog!).

Field Guide to Cookies includes traditional favorites and exotic treats from all over the worldóeverything from spritzgeb‰ck to madelines. Each cookie is photographed in glorious full color with step-by-step instructions on how to prepare bake serve and store your creations. With Field Guide to Cookies in your pantry delicious home-baked confections are just minutes away!

About the Author

Anita Chu is a graduate of Tante Marie's Professional Pastry program and a former baker for Bittersweet Chocolate Café. She channels her love of baking, writing, and photography on her award-winning Web site, Dessert First. She lives in San Francisco.

Adam McAlpine Clark is a professional baker, writer, and visual artist in Philadelphia.

Product Details

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Quirk Books; Min edition (November 19, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1594742839
• ISBN-13: 978-1594742835
• Product Dimensions: 5.8 x 4.5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #40,198 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Snap Out of Your Baking Rut, October 2, 2008

By	Erin E. Nichols "Blogger at ErinCooks.com" (Cambridge, Massachusetts) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

It may only be October, but I believe I've found the perfect stocking stuffer for the upcoming holiday season. The pocket sized cookbook A Field Guide to Cookies by Anita Chu promises to assist you in learning how to identify and bake virtually every cookie imaginable. She isn't kidding either. The author offers up recipes in all the major cookie categories including drop, bar, molded, and rolled.

Each recipe is neatly outlined with a general description of the treat, the historical background, serving suggestions, helpful baking notes, and even storage tips. Best of all, located in the center of the book are color images of every recipe. This is especially helpful due to the number of recipes inside that I've never heard of before. Have you ever made a Financier? How about a Speculass or a Congo Bar? Sometimes I find it hard to break out of my chocolate chip cookie comfort zone, but I sincerely believe this cookbook will nudge any home cook out of the baking rut you may be experiencing.

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Terrific cookie book, September 22, 2008

By	Nancy - See all my reviews

I love the size and shape of this book.
There are so many cookies, some I have never heard of and I'm a pastry chef! And there is a beautiful color photo of each cookie.
This is an outstanding reference guide to cookies.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars MMMMMM GOOD!, December 27, 2008

By	Kari L. Franzoni "Kari" (Canton, IL USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This book is wonderful! Helpful for the person just learning to make cookies, but helpful for even a person like me who bakes a lot. Includes tidbit information about some of the recipes - where it originated, story about how it was created, etc. Wonderful - MMMM Good recipes. Some of the recipes were already my family's favorite - but it's nice to have the recipes all in one book.

I strongly recommend this book for any time of year!