A tour of the city's best dessert-makers, complete with recipes. The Big Apple is a city of sweets. Think about all the classic desserts that were made famous here: cheesecake, black-and-white cookies, the Broadway milkshake. Visitors from around the world make pilgrimages to bastions of butter and flour such as Magnolia, Ferrara, and City Bakery. And today there is a renaissance of young sugar-minded artisans who are crafting exquisite confections with fair-trade chocolate, organic gelato, and...
Make Mine Ice Cream (MacMillan Early Science Big Books)
by Melvin Berger
A history of ice cream, from 4000 years ago when the Egyptians mixed honey with crushed ice, to the present day, in which 800 million gallons of ice cream are consumed annually in the U.S. alone.
A celebration of the world's greatest chilled dessert, this book focuses on the specifically Italian origins of ices. Many would later claim ices as their own, but gelati, sorbetti, granite and many more sweet treats from the icebox all had their beginnings in Italy. Cornettos overloaded with softly melting scoops of flavoursome heaven did not occur by chance - much went before - tales that need to be told! The Romans brought down blocks of frozen snow from the slopes of mount Etna to store in g...
The Best of Ice Cream : a Cookbook
by Beverly Cox, Malvina C. Kinard, and Ellen Silverman
In this elegantly illustrated guide to mouth-watering ice creams, sorbets, and frozen yogurts--all prepared using only natural ingredients--the authors show readers how to turn most anything--from vanilla beans to fresh strawberries--into sublime desserts. 40 photos.
