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The Elements of Dessert Book

This is the essential guide to truly stunning desserts from pastry chef Francisco Migoya. In this gorgeous and comprehensive new cookbook, Chef Migoya begins with the essential elements of contemporary desserts - like mousses, doughs, and ganaches - showing pastry chefs and students how to master those building blocks before molding and incorporating them into creative finished desserts. He then explores in detail pre-desserts, plated desserts, dessert buffets, passed desserts, cakes, and petits fours. Throughout, gorgeous and instructive photography displays steps, techniques, and finished items. The more than 200 recipes and variations collected here cover virtually every technique, concept, and type of dessert, giving professionals and home cooks a complete education in modern desserts. It features more than 200 recipes including everything from artisan chocolates to French macarons to complex masterpieces like Bacon Ice Cream with Crisp French Toast and Maple Sauce. It is written by Certified Master Baker Francisco Migoya, a highly respected pastry chef and the author of "Frozen Desserts" and "The Modern Cafe", both from Wiley.Combining Chef Migoya's expertise with that of The Culinary Institute of America, "The Elements of Dessert" is a must-have resource for professionals, students, and serious home cooks.Read More

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  • Foyles

    In The Elements of Dessert, renowned pastry chef Francisco Migoya, professor at The Culinary Institute of America, takes you on a guided tour through the innovative flavors, ingredients, and techniques in the thrilling world of desserts.  He begins with the fundamental elements—such as mousses, doughs, and ganaches-- revealing in each recipe how to incorporate these building blocks into inventive, unforgettable delicacies.  Chef Migoya then explores basic pastry methods and dessert and menu composition principles in 200 recipes and variations in the essential groups of pre-desserts, plated desserts, dessert buffets, passed-around desserts, and cakes and petits fours.  Inspirational and instructive photographs display steps, techniques, and finished desserts.  

  • BookDepository

    The Elements of Dessert : Hardback : John Wiley & Sons Inc : 9780470891988 : 047089198X : 23 Nov 2012 : * Begins with the essential elements of contemporary dessertsshowing pastry chefs and students how to master those building blocks before molding and incorporating them into creative finished desserts. * He then explores in detail pre-desserts, plated desserts, dessert buffets, passed desserts, cakes, and petits fours.

  • 047089198X
  • 9780470891988
  • Francisco J. Migoya
  • 23 November 2012
  • John Wiley & Sons
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 544
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