The Great Book of Chocolate

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(5 stars) - No nonsense. Just chocolate!
David Lebovitz, how I love thee. Thank you for writing this book! If you want to know about chocolate, look no further. It gives the essentials of chocolate, from how it's grown to where to get it to cooking/baking, in his usual easy to read style. He also includes wonderful scrumptious recipes which pretty much cover the whole spectrum of chocolate goodies. Love, love, love.

(4 stars) - Descriptive book
I enjoyed this book. It had a lot of detailed information including website reference as well as a lots of yummy recipes I can't wait to make.

(5 stars) - Chocolate facts and info as well as recipes
Excellent book. One of the very few books on chocolate that I own that actually contains lots of info about chocolate. Previously I've only collected recipe books but I have already read this book cover to cover and was delighted with all the information (valuable insights into chocolate manufacture, tasting, etc). The recipes look fantastic - I have yet to try them but I am very impressed by the information presented on chocolate. I wish I had purchased this book years ago before I started making chocolates and chocolate desserts it would have saved lots of time and mistakes.

(4 stars) - Excellent intro to top-quality, tasteful chocolate.
Handy international travel/shopping guide and well-focused recipe collection. Very accurate and informative. Compact narrow book format is great for suitcases but a pain for comfortable armchair reading. Elegant, GORGEOUS photos are a big plus, but excessive wasteful "white space" and generous text-spacing (leading) should have been saved instead for a larger coffee-table book. Note that much of the shopping/address info in the 2004 edition reviewed here might need updating, so check if the publisher has done so.

(5 stars) - Simplicity at its best
I love David's cookbooks because the thread that runs through all of them is great ingredients simply prepared make wonderful desserts. My preschool daughters and I make truly homemade brownies together and it doesn't get any better than that!

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