Best of the Best from Florida Cookbook or Indulge

Best of the Best from Florida Cookbook: Selected Recipes from Florida's Favorite Cookbooks

Author: Gwen Mcke

Imagine having the favorite recipes from 83 of Florida's leading cookbooks -- all in one book! Here are over 400 Sunshine State Best of the Best recipes, including the unbelievable Sirloin with Grilled Shrimp and Brie; the tasty, not-just-for-tailgating Gator Gumbolaya; the exotic Jamaican Grilled Fish; the totally decadent White Chocolate Key Lime Cheesecake... Best of the Best from Florida Cookbook, created with the everyday cook in mind, has been carefully edited for clarity and taste.

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Indulge: 100 Perfect Desserts

Author: Claire Clark

Learn to craft desserts from a master pâtissier.

Claire Clark is the pastry chef at The French Laundry (Napa Valley in California), one of America's most renowned restaurants. Its innovative and creative menus always deliver the highest standards of quality and great taste. Its celebrated desserts, made by Clark, are nothing short of remarkable.

Indulge is a collection of Claire Clark's favorites dishes that any home chef can re-create. Perfectly decadent, the recipes in this new cookbook range from the deceptively simple to the more exotic. Included are cookies, cakes, pastries, mousses, ices, meringues, custards and creams, and more. Clark's down-to-earth writing style demystifies such sumptuous sweets as:

• Red wine and chocolate cake
• Bitter chocolate, praline brûlée and espresso torte
• Orange and pistachio semolina cake
• Fig and blueberry and créme fraîche tart
• Rich chocolate ganache tart with salted caramel and candied peanuts
• Tropical fruit Pavlova
• Mango, ginger and lime sorbet.

Along with the recipes there are valuable tips and techniques learned during Claire Clark's 20 years as a pastry chef in world famous restaurants.

Table of Contents:

Foreword by Thomas Keller
Introduction
Notes for American Readers

Biscuits and Cookies

Cakes

Pastry

Meringues

Custards and Creams

Desserts, Mousses and Jellies

Puddings

Ices

Petits Fours

Suppliers
Index
Acknowledgements