La Nouvelle Patisserie

Jean yves duperret's elegant pastry shop on union square in san francisco, la nouvelle patisserie, offers chocolates, pastries and desserts conceived in the spirit of the nouvelle cusine and executed with creative flair and vitality. This book will offer recipes that epitomize 'new world patisserie' in every sense, combining old world techniques and traditions with the bounty and technology of the new. There will be chapters on cakes, creams and mousses, basic doughs, tarts, cookies and petit fours, friandises, preserved fruit confections and jams, special holiday cakes -- about 150 recipes in all, keyed for simple, medium and advanced degrees of execution. The necessary introductory material on equipment and ingredients will of course be included, and there will be some 75 line drawings of techniques and finished presentations by coauthor jacqueline mallorca. This will be a handsome, elegant, thoroughly upmarket cookbook by an ...2. NOT UK/OM