The Joy of Chocolate (Barron's Educational Series) [Paperback]

Judith Olney (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 182 pages
• Publisher: Barrons Educational Series Inc (September 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0812042794
• ISBN-13: 978-0812042795
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 7 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,040,084 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Judith Olney is a cookbook author, a cooking school teacher, and a former restaurant critic and food editor at the Washington Times. She lived in Africa, (where she dined on ostrich eggs and fufu); London where she worked for cookery writer Elizabeth David and spent time in the kitchen of the Connought Hotel, and France where she learned from and aided her brother-in-law Richard Olney at his famous Avignon classes. Currently living in Palm Beach, Florida, she still writes and teaches an occasional class at the Society of the Four Arts.

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Serious Cook & 10 Year User of this book, March 9, 2000

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This review is from: The Joy of Chocolate (Hardcover)

I've been using this book since it was first published in 1989 and have tried nearly every recipe. All are uniformly excellent and beautiful, sucessful and extremely satisfying. Its one of those cookbooks that is so well written and researched that you keep going back to it time after time, completely sure of success. I have presented these desserts at countless dinner parties. They range from the dramatic cabbage shaped chocolate cake and chocolate sack with apricot creamand fresh fruits to the comforting: the very best, easiest brownie recipe and the simple, rich mexican hot chocolate. Honestly, The book is worth it just for this brownie recipe. If I could only choose five cookbooks to keep for the rest of my life, this would certainly be one of them. Buy it, and cook from it.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Beautiful Book!, October 13, 2003

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This review is from: The Joy of Chocolate (Hardcover)

This is one of those small books by Barron. I have made the chocolate pound cake many times. It is described as the best pound cake the author has ever eaten. I agree with her. It's extremely moist and lasts for days. I have also tried a layer cake and the sour cream marble cake and have gotten similar results.

The book is well designed. Although there are not a lot of color photographs in this book, those that are included are first rate.I do, however, have a couple of complaints about the book. You are not told--at least in the recipes I've tried-- where to put the rack in the oven. Also, in the recipe for pound cake, hot water is included in the list of ingredients but you are left on your own as to when and how to include that with the other items.

5.0 out of 5 stars inside book says, March 25, 2010

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This review is from: The Joy of Chocolate (Hardcover)

Chocolate of course is the stuff of which fantasies are made. Rich, dark, velvety-smooth fantasies that envelop the senses and stir the passions. Chocolate is madness; chocolate is delight. You'll behold chocolate in all its infinite variety: chocolate chip cookies, chocolate honeycombs, double-dipped chocolate-covered cherries- shall we go on? - brandied chocolate Bavarian, chocolate raspberry trifle, fudge ice cream and how about all those chocolaty cakes and pies and those mousses and malteds, those swirling parfaits and puddings. O wondrous book!