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Few sweets epitomize the luxurious indulgence of gourmet chocolate like truffles, and now these fine desserts can be made effortlessly in your own home. In Truffles, Dede Wilson presents 50 clear, easy-to-follow recipes for delicious truffles using milk, dark, and white chocolate infused with a variety of fabulous flavorings, such as raspberry, ginger, espresso, cognac, passion fruit, hazelnut, and champagne. Filled with gorgeous, mouthwatering 4-color photographs, Truffles also features tips on truffle-making basics, choosing the right chocolate, decorating and storing truffles, and creative ideas for packaging truffles as gifts..
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The second most expensive food in the world after saffron, truffles are treasured, coveted, and savored for their mysterious and exotic flavor. This complete field guide shows chefs and fungi aficionados how to forage for and identify the wide variety of truffles that grow in temperate forests throughout North America. Written by expert horticulturalists who have studied, classified, and enjoyed truffles for decades, the FIELD GUIDE TO NORTH AMERICAN TRUFFLES makes these celebrated underground jewels accessible to all..
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Guided by Carole Bloom’s so clear, so simple you’ll-kick-yourself-for-not-doing-this-sooner instructions, you’ll be on your way to making batches of some of the 90-plus treats found in TRUFFLES, CANDIES, AND CONFECTIONS in no time. Featuring Orange Chocolate Truffles, Vanilla Cream Caramels, Raspberry-Almond Squares, Espresso Hazelnut Fudge, and much more, this revised and expanded edition includes an updated introduction covering ingredients (buying and handling), equipment, techniques, ideas for packaging gifts, and the author’s special, trademarked tasting chart. Using tools found in most kitchens (you don’t even need a double boiler) and ingredients found at most grocery stores (including gourmet chocolate these days), you can start your own candy-making tradition. Don’t waste another calorie on store-bought, mass-produced candy—learn to make your own and never look back..
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There were, and still are, great restaurants all over Europe, but the greater part of Blue Trout and Black Truffles is devoted to the eating-places and vineyards of France. It is a vicarious experience less enjoyable only than the real thing to read in the pages of this book of the culinary wonders of the notable establishments that have become the last epicurean haven in this materialistic, mechanized world of fast-food chains and frozen-food dinners.

Mr. Wechsberg practiced the art of dining and wining in the greatest of Europe's gastronomic sancta sanctora and proved himself a master. He reaches back to the twilight days of the Habsburg monarchy, when those splendid monuments to the haute cuisine in central Europe, Meissl and Schadn of Vienna and Gundel's of Budapest, were in their prime. At Meissl and Schadn twenty-four varieties of boiled beef could be ordered, and in Vienna a person who couldn't talk learnedly about at least a dozen different cuts of boiled beef was "beyond the pale"-no matter what titles had been conferred on him by the Kaiser.

Almost every chapter in this heart-and-stomach-warming book takes the reader to a place that is worth a special journey-a place where he can savor the great art of graceful living..
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Cooking with Nature’s Rarest Treasure

Now you can make luxury a part of everyday dining, with delicious truffle-based dishes that only taste expensive From truffle butters, oils, and cheeses to pastas, honey, and flour, this book shows you how to use the lure of truffles to create magical meals that are triumphs of easy yet affordable elegance..
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Truffles are underground mushrooms, powerfully scented and expensive, important in the finest French and Italian cooking. They are used in the world's great restaurants and command exorbitant prices. Truffles attract enthusiastic gourmets for whom passion can turn into obsession. The Truffle Book is a perfect introduction to the pleasurable and mysterious world of truffles. Gareth Renowden explores the truffle forests of France and the truffle markets of Italy, discovers the new truffles of the American Northwest and the new plantations of Australia and New Zealand, and dispels a few myths along the way. There's advice on setting up a truffiere, training a dog to find truffles, how to buy truffles and avoid expensive mistakes, and how to cook the defining truffle dishes. If you've ever tasted truffle and wanted to know more, or want to know what all the fuss is about, The Truffle Book has the answers..
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"Truffles are an affair of the heart . . . nothing else can explain the passion with which men (and women) pursue this elusive tuber, scrabbling in the earth or emptying the purse - whatever it takes to obtain the object of desire. Nothing else in the gastronomic firmament, however precious, arouses such feelings."

Here Elisabeth Luard captures the essence of the truffle's almost magical power. On a more practical level, she also shows the reader how to get the very best from truffles, whether this means slivering a truffle over a tangle of homemade pasta, inserting delicate slices beneath the skin of a poulet de Bresse or even simply baking a truffle in a jacket of leftover bread-dough.

The book not only provides a mouthwatering collection of authentic regional and classic recipes and a fascinating and occasionally eccentric account of truffle-hunting, it also includes a gazetteer of the places where truffles are to be found, recommends the key markets where they are to be bought and gives details of growers engaging in modern trufficulture - making it essential reading for sophisticated gourmet travelers and for all those who are, quite simply, prepared to be seduced by what is surely the ultimate gastronomic experience.

Illustrated throughout with John Heseltine's specially commissioned evocative photographs, this book is a must for all food lovers..
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