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Books : Gordon Ramsay's Just Desserts
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Gordon Ramsay's Just Desserts by: Gordon Ramsay, Roz Denny List Price: £14.99 Vegetarian Books Price: £9.74 You Save: £5.25 (35%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 641 EAN: 9781844000197 ISBN: 1844000192 Label: Quadrille Publishing Ltd Manufacturer: Quadrille Publishing Ltd Number Of Pages: 224 Publication Date: December 17, 2002 Publisher: Quadrille Publishing Ltd Studio: Quadrille Publishing Ltd Sales Rank: 5708 Related Items:
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Editorial Review: Amazon.co.uk Review: Just Desserts is a very fine book of puddings from energetic three-star Michelin chef Gordon Ramsay, expertly marshalled for the domestic kitchen by Roz Denny. Ramsay's imagination is obviously caught by the sweet course: he expends a great deal of innovative thinking to it with fascinating results. He is inclined to roast his fruit, for example, caramelising it for greater intensity of flavour; or he might deep-fry it, as in the elegant and fantastically nonchalant Fruit Tempura. His ices and creams include voluptuous nut creams and lavender, orange flower water or liquorice ice cream. Oriental flavours appear in ethereal dishes like the Thai Rice Pudding with Coconut and Lemon (serve with mango coulis) or Banana and Passion Fruit Sorbet. Cheesecake is light and flavoured with pumpkin. Proper homage is paid to comfort food, with recipes for Bread and Butter Pudding (Ramsay makes his with baguette and laces it with Baileys liqueur) and Steamed Toffee, Banana and Pecan Pudding. The chocolate recipes are particularly fine, with a Chocolate Mocha Tart standing out. Just Desserts is also an excellent primer of patisserie techniques, its explanations and illustrations of the standard syrups, pastes, sponges and pastries of the restaurant kitchen, here translated into domestic terms, being particularly lucid. The professional mysteries of the mousse, the parfait, the bavarois and the various manifestations of the meringue are made wonderfully clear. No holding back, then. --Robin Davidson Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - Will Make You Fat, But You Won't CareJust Desserts, is written by the accomplished and talented three Michelin star chef Gordon Ramsey. As the name suggests, it's a cook book filled with recipes for the best part of a meal - - desserts. It is the first book written by Gordon Ramsay I've ever purchased, and if his other books are as impressive as this one, then I guess I'll be buying the whole lot. While it's not the single best cook book I've ever seen, it is definitely the best dessert book and puts all others to shame. Gordon Ramsay is very passionate about food in general, and while I don't really picture him being big on desserts, I found almost all his desserts to be... mouth-watering to say the least, even the desserts I don't like, sound and look great. I ... Read More: Rating:  - Disappointing. These are not Michelin Star Desserts!Gordon Ramsay is a great chef and there is no doubt that his Chelsea restaurant is worthy of its 3 Michelin stars. It is a shame therefore that this status is not reflected by his book 'Just Desserts' which I have recently purchased. The book is 211 pages long. Pages 6 to 119 comprise 1)roasted fruits, 2)fruit salads 3) jellies 4) ice creams 5) parfaits 6) sorbets 7) mouses 8) souffles 9) crepes. These are all very basic recipes and in any event repeated multiple times with just different flavours presumeably to pad out the book. Pages 168 to 189 are how to make biscuits and petit forts. Pages 190 to 211 are entitled 'basics' (ie how to make meringues , pastry etc). What most people ... Read More: Rating: - No other dessert book comes closeI work as a pastry chef and own dessert books by authors such as Rose Levy Beranbaum, Maida Heatter, Marcel Desaulniers, etc. But none come close to this book. Maybe it is unfair to compare "baking" books to this cookbook, which could only be classified as a "dessert" book, but other "dessert" books (ie Michel Roux's Finest Desserts, Jacques Torres' Dessert Circus) still fall short of this book. Gordon is clearly in a league of his own, his flavour combinations are original, creative, and ahead of their time, whilst still retaining a simplicity that allows any intermediate cook to approch them. I say this from experience, because I have owned this book well before I started my pastry apprenticeship. To give you an understanding ... Read More: Rating: - FantasticI purchased this book only because of the two book deals on Amazon, but to my surprise it was filled with yummy desserts, I have only made one of them so far, but if this one was anything to go by, I can not wait to try more, my husband was in heaven when he tried it. Well done Gordon for a great book. Rating:  - Fantastic book to delight your taste budsThis book is devine. The receipes are delicious and will impress anyone. I found the receipes to be spot on, the quanties were exactly right and there was no need to mess with them and they worked exactly how he said they would. He puts some unusual ingredients in which work excellently. Some ingredients arn't that straight forward, but it is well worth making the effort. This is a book for people who love to cook however and not for people who want easy quick puds. Fab book highly recommended. |
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