Sweet Stuff
Karen Barker's American Desserts
The University of North Carolina Press
Published on 27. August 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
384 pages
978-0-8078-5860-8 (ISBN)
Description
Drawing on years of professional experience as well as memories of cooking and baking from her New York childhood, award-winning pastry chef Karen Barker gives us the benefit of cooking alongside an experienced mentor. Starting with the fundamentals, she offers practical advice on selecting key ingredients, suggestions for essential kitchen equipment, secrets for success, and tips on ways to fit dessert-making into the busiest of schedules. The recipes include familiar favorites with a twist, such as key lime coconut pie with rum cream, deep-dish brown sugar plum cobbler, dark chocolate Peppermint Pattie cake, and cornmeal vanilla bean shortbreads.
Reviews / Votes
"Unpretentious... unfailingly delectable desserts." - New York Times "Try Barker's chocolate shortcake.... Oh, man, it's good." - Washington Post "In Sweet Stuff, James Beard Award-winning pastry chef Karen Barker shares the secrets behind her luscious desserts. Like any good teacher, Barker starts with the essentials... and works her way up to more elaborate creations." - Bon Appetit"More details
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Chapel Hill
United States
Edition type
New edition
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 184 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-8078-5860-8 (9780807858608)
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Person
Karen Barker is the 2003 winner of the Best Pastry Chef Award from the James Beard Foundation and 1999 winner of Bon ApZtit's American Food and Entertaining Award for Best Pastry Chef. She and husband Ben Barker own and operate Magnolia Grill in Durham, North Carolina, and are coauthors of Not Afraid of Flavor: Recipes from Magnolia Grill.