Dessert is a Work of ArtCreate unforgettable pastries that are as delicious as they are showstopping with this collection of astonishing illusion entremets recipes. Accomplished pastry chef and instructor, Fred Csibi-Levin shares the secrets to crafting impressive trompe l’oeil desserts: edible optical illusions filled with your choice of mousses, sponges, fruit fillings, and more. Layered with innovative flavor combinations, tempting textural components, and artfu...

Your Complete Macaron MasterclassThe ultimate handbook to creating one of the most notoriously challenging cookies, this comprehensive resource has everything you need to know to create consistently fantastic macarons. Scientist-turned-pastry chef Fred Csibi-Levin unravels common issues like deflated meringue, flattened feet and fragile shells. No more wondering what went wrong—Fred’s clear explanations, photo examples and practical advice will give you the skills ...

Stephanie Thurow has teamed up with the canning experts at WECK to show you how to preserve with WECK jars—jams, kimchi, sauerkrauts, and much more!The J. WECK Company has made aesthetically beautiful all-glass home canning jars for one hundred years. Never before offered, Stephanie has created a step-by-step guide to preserving with WECK jars and has developed one hundred delicious, small-batch recipes to can, ferment, and infuse with them. Recipes in this helpful...

Recipes in this helpful, full color book include strawberry chutney, the perfect garlic dill pickle, spring onion kimchi, cinnamon-honey apple butter, and more!Welcome to the world of produce preservation. In Can It & Ferment It, blogger and Certified Master Food Preserver Stephanie Thurow brings the canning and fermenting communities together by offering recipes that work for both canning and fermenting. From a first-timer to the advanced preservationist,...

In this comprehensive cookbook, America's Test Kitchen breaks down the often intimidating art and science of bread baking, making it easy for anyone to create foolproof, bakery-quality breads at home.Many home cooks find bread baking rewarding but intimidating. In Bread Illustrated, America's Test Kitchen shows bakers of all levels how to make foolproof breads, rolls, flatbreads, and more at home. Each master recipe is presented as a hands-on and reassuring tutoria...

Freeze, dry, can, root cellar, and brine your favorite produce right at home. Janet Chadwick’s introduction to the world of preserving provides step-by-step instructions and inspiring easy-to-follow recipes. Pick up a crate of inexpensive, less-than-perfect tomatoes at the farmers’ market and turn them into jars of spicy salsa, or buy a few extra peaches and can a delicious batch of jam to serve with Sunday breakfast. You’ll extend the summer harvest and find yourself serving up delicious,...

Every home cook's essential step-by-step guide to canning and preserving 100 can't-fail sweet and savory recipes, from tried-and-true classics to modern updates.The experts at America's Test Kitchen show you how to easily (and safely) make homemade everything—from fruity jams with beautiful summer berries to piquant pickles from raw vegetables of all kinds—with detailed tutorials, troubleshooting tips, equipment information, instruction on doubling batches, and ins...

A collection of 30 small batch preserving recipes and 90 recipes in which to use the preserved goods for anyone who's ever headed to their local farmers' market reciting the mantra "I will not overbuy" but has lumbered home with bags overflowing with delicious summer strawberries, zucchini blossoms, and tomatoes, or autumn apples, pears, and cauliflower.Preserving recipes like Marinated Baby Artichokes are followed by recipes for dishes like Marinated Artichoke and...

The expert baker behind Kansas City's Farm to Market Bread Co. shares his natural starter secrets in this complete guide to baking artisanal bread.There's nothing quite like the pure, simple pleasure of freshly baked bread. And few bakers know bread like Mark Friend, founder of Kansas City's Farm to Market Bread Company. For more than twenty-five years, Kansas Citians have enjoyed Mark's fresh-baked creations. Now he teaches you how to bake their own artisanal sourd...

A comprehensive, year-round guide to jellies, jams, conserves, preserves, and marmalades, featuring over 100 recipes.If you love to cook, are crazy for fruit, or have even a passing interest in jam or marmalade, Rachel Saunders's James Beard Award–nominated Blue Chair Jam Cookbook is the book for you. Rachel's legendary Bay Area jam company, Blue Chair Fruit, earned instant fame for its intensely flavored preserves when it launched in 2008. Rachel's passion...

The ultimate, authortative guide to home canning, direct from the US Government!Home canning has changed greatly in the 180 years since it was introduced as a way to preserve food. Scientists have found ways to produce safer, higher quality products. The Complete Book of Home Canning is a comprehensive guide to canning put out by the United States Department of Agriculture.The first part of the book explains the scientific principles on which canni...

While "bread" once implied a simple, sliced white loaf from the supermarket, consumers have begun to consider the product in a more sophisticated light. Bread enthusiasts are more aware of the diverse array of high-quality breads than ever before and are seeking out handmade artisan products at local farmers' markets, organic grocery stores, specialty shops…even the Internet. Baking Artisan Bread will show that finding these specialty breads is as easy as looking in your own kitchen! Bakin...