Paramount desserts / Christine Manfield ; photography by Ashley Barber.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Manfield, Christine, author.

Contributor:

Barber, Ashley, photographer.

Nick Malgieri Culinary Archive and Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Culinary Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Desserts.

Penn Provenance:

Malgieri, Nick (donor) (Malgieri Collection copy)

Physical Description:

vii pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 165 pages, 1 unnumbered page : color illustrations ; 30 cm

Manufacture:

Hong Kong : Printed and bound through Bookbuilders Limited.

Place of Publication:

[Ringwood, Victoria, Australia] : Viking [Penguin Books Australia Ltd.], [1997]

Contents:

Dessert is paramount!

The necessities

Architectural offerings

Ice-creams and sorbets

Small sweet things

Equipment and ingredients.

Notes:

"First published by Penguin Books Australia Ltd 1997."

"Designed by Jo Hunt, Penguin Design Studio."

"Typeset in Gill Sans by Typesetters, Brisbane."

Foreword (p. [vii]) by Simon Johnson.

"Never should dessert be seen as a flippant or excessive extra to any meal. It provides a vital structure and balance to a restaurant's menu ... At a restaurant or formal dinner, dessert is the final thing you eat. It leaves a lingering taste, a lasting impression."--P. [1].

Illustrated boards lettered in silver with curved outer edge.

Includes bibliographical references (page 159) and index. Silver-gray lining papers.

Local Notes:

Nick Malgieri Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Nick Malgieri.

ISBN:

0670870862

9780670870868

OCLC:

42407361