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BraveTart
Iconic American Desserts
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See moreAn award-winning pastry chefβs foolproof recipes and fresh take on the history of American desserts, from chocolate chip cookies to toaster pastries.
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From One-Bowl Devil's Food Layer Cake to a flawless Cherry Pie that's crisp even on the very bottom, BraveTart is a celebration of classic American desserts. Whether it's down-home delights like Blueberry Muffins and Glossy Fudge Brownies or supermarket mainstays such as Vanilla Wafers and Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Ice Cream, your favourites are all here.
These meticulously tested recipes bring an award-winning pastry chef's expertise into your kitchen, along with advice on how to "mix it up" with over 200 customisable variationsβexactly what you'd expect from a cookbook penned by a senior editor at Serious Eats.
Yet BraveTart is much more than a cookbook, as Stella Parks delves into the surprising stories of how our favourite desserts came to be, from chocolate chip cookies that predate the Tollhouse Inn to the prohibition-era origins of ice cream sodas and floats.
With a foreword by The Food Lab's J. Kenji LΓ³pez-Alt, vintage advertisements for these historical desserts, and breathtaking photography from Penny De Los Santos, BraveTart is sure to become an American classic.
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Nigella Lawson praises BraveTart for its inspirational approach to baking, highlighting the unique techniques, like whisking egg whites for marshmallow icing. Choice magazine notes it as the ultimate destination for enthusiasts of American desserts, making it a must-have for those seeking classic recipes with a twist.
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ISBN: 9780393239867
Publisher: WW Norton & Co
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 29 September 2017
Country: United States
Imprint: WW Norton & Co
Illustration: 84 photographs
Contributors:
- Foreword by J. Kenji LΓ³pez-Alt
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 30.0mm
Width: 224.0mm
Height: 274.0mm
Weight: 1607g
Pages: 400
About the Author
Stella Parks is a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America. She was named one of Americaβs Best New Pastry Chefs by Food & Wine. When not at home in Lexington, Kentucky, Stella can be found at the Serious Eats test kitchen in Brooklyn, New York. J. Kenji LΓ³pez-Alt is a chef, parent, and New York Times best-selling author of The Food Lab, The Wok and Every Night Is Pizza Night. He is a wildly popular New York Times food columnist; cohost of The Recipe podcast with Deb Perelman; and host of Kenjiβs Cooking Show, which has more than a million subscribers on YouTube. He lives in Seattle, Washington.
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