Jacques Torres' A Year in Chocolate: 80 Recipes for Holidays and Special Occasions

Jacques Torres' A Year in Chocolate: 80 Recipes for Holidays and Special OccasionsJacques Torres, Judith ChoatePublisher: Stewart, Tabori and ChangNovember 2008EAN: 9781584796428ISBN: 1584796421Synopsis: Let your New Year's resolution be "Eat more chocolate." With Jacques Torres' A Year in Chocolate as your guide, you won't have any difficulty sticking with it from January right on through December. From the elegant Poached Pears with Chocolate Fondue to serve on New Year's Day and a festive Buche de Noel filled with chocolate cream and ornamented with meringue mushrooms, to homemade Easter eggs and autumnal Pumpkin Seed Brittle, the world-renowned pastry chef and chocolatier presents us with a calendar's worth of treats sure to make every celebration more luscious. All the holiday classics are featured here: Valentine's Day bonbons, a molded chocolate Easter Bunny, ice cream sundaes for the Fourth of July, and Chocolate Caramel Corn for Halloween. But for Torres' chocolate-drenched im