alice medrich's book “bittersweet” has several very good recipes.

, Marcella Hazan’s “Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking.” I frequently use her quicker pasta recipes (e.g. Spinach Sauce with Ricotta) for weeknight dinners since I get home lateish, and they’re really...

Believe me, the last thing I need is another cookbook, but this one is great. Speaking of another cookbook, try Bittersweet by Alice Medrich. She is fantastic. Not only the recipes, but all the information she gives you. I did...

I don’t have a reference for you, and nothing I say should be considered definitive (yes, major disclaimer!), but what I have heard for years is... Alice Medrich, whom you most likely know as an author of cookbooks,...

I was asked to compile wishlist for the holidays and I found my eye wandering towards cookbooks. I made a short list: Pure Desserts by Alice Medrich Dolce Italiano: Desserts from the Babbo Kitchen by Gina DePalma The Babbo Cookbook...

flavored with lots of lemon zest and some juice. Very good served with rich tarts I’ve been making lately. Also, I just bought Pure Dessert by Alice Medrich and she has a magnificent recipe for sour cream ice cream in there....

Here’s the place to discuss, inform, argue, praise, etc. Alice Medrich's Chocolate and The Art of Low Fat Desserts. Please feel free to post links to info and recipes, etc.

I have not seen Julia’s recipe, but have made Alice Medrich's many, many times. It’s in her book “Cocolat”, and an updated version with variations in her book “Bittersweet”. My variation is to...

Not really an invention but a riff on an old favorite: Alice Medrich's Reine de Saba cake from The Baker’s Dozen cookbook, Americanized for the 4th with Hershey’s Special Dark chocolate, pecans, and Zinfandel port as...

Alice Medrich's Italian Chocolate-Almond Torte is easy and has great, sophisticated flavor. It’s not a traditional flourless chocolate cake, it’s made with ground almonds and chocolate. Essentially just chocolate,...

through it it as if it’s hardcore porn.) The Willoughby/Schlesinger volume, as noted, is great – they did most of the meat in the 1990s revision of Joy of Cooking, which is worth picking up for that alone –...

Baking From My Home To Yours / Dorie Greenspan Baking HandBook / Martha Stewart Pie / Ken Haedrich Bittersweet / Alice Medrich Pie and Pastry Bible / RLB

Conventional wisdom says that Trader Joe’s brand chocolate is actually Callebaut, and Alice Medrich confirmed the idea when I heard her speak here last fall,

to Alice Medrich in her book Pure Desserts). These include muscovado, turbinado and demerara. I gather that these are considered semirefined because some of the natural molasses is left in the sugar. It’s all sugar, just...

The current “Dessert Cookbook of the Month” Alice Medrich's “Pure Dessert” has a recipe for quark souffle that sounds delicious that I was going to recommend until I saw your last comment about feeling too...