Grand finales : the art of the plated dessert / [compiled by] Tish Boyle and Timothy Moriarty editors of Chocolatier and Pastry Art and Design. Preface by Michael Schneider Editor-in-Chief, Chocolatier and Pastry Art & Design.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Boyle, Tish.

Moriarty, Timothy, 1951-

Uher, John.

Nick Malgieri Culinary Archive and Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Culinary Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Desserts.

Pastry.

Penn Provenance:

Malgieri, Nick (donor) (Malgieri Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xiv pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 348 pages, 4 unnumbered pages : color illustrations, color portraits ; 28 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Van Nostrand Reinhold, a division of International Thomson Publishing Inc., [1997]

Summary:

"Authors Tish Boyle and Timothy Moriarty have written a book that will change the course of culinary history - they have formally identified the different "schools" of pastry in relation to the world of art and design. From Neo-Classicist to the Impressionist to the Modernist and Fusionist dessert, the result - a grand look at the extraordinary plated desserts being created today." "As Michael Schneider, editor-in-chief of Pastry Art & Design and Chocolatier magazines, and creator of the book observes, "The concept of the plated dessert is best understood if you visualize the plate as the canvas and the components as the medium with which the chefs 'paint.' Although beautiful presentation is integral to the concept, a plated dessert is created not so much as to be exhibited as to be eaten."" "In this enticing new book, each master pastry chef offers a delectable recipe, accompanied by an elegant four-color photograph of the transcendent work. We are also given a privileged look behind the scenes where chefs share their most guarded secrets."--Dust jacket.

Contents:

Chapter 1. Introductionalism

Chapter 2. Neo-classicism

Chapter 3. Minimalism

Chapter 4. Illusionism

Chapter 5. Architecturalism

Chapter 6. Impressionism

Chapter 7. Modernism

Chapter 8. Performance Art

Chapter 9. Eclecticism

Chapter 10. Fusionism.

Notes:

"Photography by John Uher."--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references (page 335) and index.

Local Notes:

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

Malgieri Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

Malgier Collection copy has label pasted on back cover "Published by John Wiley and Sons, Inc.".

Malgieri Collection copy has letter and press release from Chronicle Books regarding this book laid in.

ISBN:

0442022875

9780442022877

OCLC:

34658530