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• Medrich, Alice

2004 IACP Award Winner for Single Subject Category

Thirty years since she opened up the Berkeley, California, pastry shop that changed the face of chocolate desserts in America, Alice Medrich is about to do it again!

The time when home bakers had only one choice of baking chocolate is long passed. Today, we have an entire new generation of chocolates to choose from: chocolates with less sugar, more cocoa bean solids, and definitely more flavor.

These new chocolates--called percentage chocolates--beg for the creation of new recipes and a fresh take on the classics. With Bittersweet, the First Lady of Chocolate gives the new-generation chocolates and chocolate nibs--the ground-up roasted hulls of cocoa beans that are the new chocolate chip--a starring role.

Every recipe is foolproof and utterly delicious, no matter your level of expertise. You'll marvel that recipes as classic as brownies, chocolate cake, and ice cream can still surprise and that souffles, crepes, even pasta sauces can be so dramatically flavorful. Still learning, discovering, and sharing what she loves and understands about chocolate, Alice Medrich brings us Bittersweet.