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Summary: Beautiful book, but poorly written and edited.
Review: This book is a visual masterpiece, and the recipes are largely phenomenal. However, it is poorly written and edited. The recipes assume you have nothing less a professional background and easy access to the most obscure ingredients and equipment. (acetate strips? Glucose syrup? I found the former at a kitchen supply store, not easy to come by. The latter--I needed a few teaspoons, and the only store I found that carried it sold it only in 4.4 pound tubs!) The recipes are poorly edited. Instructions often make simply no sense whatsoever. Ingredients are sometimes listed in the instructions but not in the ingredient list. Someone needs to take a serious look at this book and edit it cover to cover.
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Summary: Fantastic Book!
Review: This is the book I have been looking for. It has everything the chocolate lover needs. Everything from the history of chocolate, types of chocolate, how chocolate is made, through melting, tempering, molding and cooking with chocolate. You will not be sorry that you added this one to your collection.
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Summary: The ultimate book on real chocolate.
Review: This is truely a chocolate bible. It coveres everything from the origins of chocolate to its preparation and storage. As an expert, I highly recommend this book. It can be used by a layman or a professional. Buy it, you won't be sorry.
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Summary: A Visual Delight!
Review: What a treasure of a book. Not only visually delightful it is very educational as well. Makes you drool just seeing it on the table, thus it is dangerous to diets.
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