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Renowned French pastry chef Pierre Herme displays his artistic mastery in this homage to chocolate through recipes that highlight the diversity of the world's favorite ingredient in all its forms. Nicknamed the Picasso of Pastry by Vogue magazine, Herme has revolutionized traditional pastry-making. Herme returns to his first passion - chocolate. Retracing his passionate love affair with the versatile cacao bean, this work reveals daring creations that display the celebrated pastry chef's signature innovative style, which has transformed the realm of patisserie. It includes thirty-five recipes, from original combinations such as chocolate, banana, and ginger cake or chocolate and lemon madeleines to rich, iconic desserts like his Infiniment Chocolat Baba Cake, Infiniment Chocolat Macaron, or yuzu-flavored Eclair Azur. Following a collaboration with photographer Sergio Coimbra, this unique book pays homage to the purity and simplicity of chocolate and its diverse forms and textures. Under Coimbra's lens, every facet of chocolate is captured in its essence, tempting the reader to enjoy the myriad delights that constitute Herme's extraordinary chocolate repertoire

Including more than 60 elegantly illustrated recipes, Pierre Herme Macarons is the definitive guide to macarons

On November 27, 2012, world-renowned pastry chef Pierre Hermé arrived at Harvard University from Paris. He brought five chefs, two assistants, 600 sheets of gelatin, 150 eggs, 68 pounds of caster sugar, 40 pounds of unsalted butter, 32 pounds of cream, 25 pounds of milk chocolate couverture, 11 pounds of grated wasabi, and the alchemic techniques to transform these ingredients into an elaborate "lecture de pâtisserie." Together with Savinien Caracostea and Sanford Kwinter, he methodically deconstructed four conceptual desserts for 400 spectator-diners. The Architecture of Taste recaptures this night and the physiological effects of Hermé's pastry visions. Contributors Savinien Caracostea, Pierre Hermé, Sanford Kwinter The Incidents is a series of publications based on events that occured at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design between 1936 and tomorrow. Edited by Jennifer Sigler and Leah Whitman-Salkin Copublished with the Harvard University Graduate School of Design

Describes the history of fifty of the most famous desserts and how they have evolved over time, and provides Hermé's own recipes using improvements and alterations to the classic desserts.

Macarons are the aristocrats of pastry; these brightly coloured, mini meringues, daintily sandwiched together with gooey fillings, have become a holy grail for cookery fanatics and there are even food blogs dedicated to them. This title presents macaron recipes, including dark chocolate, praline, coffee, and pistachio.