Dessert Circus by Jacques Torres

The television show "the Dessert Circus" made my spouse obsess on making the perfect tarte tatin. I thought, now this is a hobby I definitely want to encourage. Spurred on by that thought I hunted around for the accompanying recipe book at Christmas, only to be greeted by eager bookstore workers who cried mournfully "oh! It's out of stock!" yet I knew somehow we'd bonded. I finally found it online and had it just in time. Granted, I've been waiting for my chocolate stove dessert for a few months now, but I can dream, can't I?

This is a coffee table book as well as an excellent and inspired selection of dessert recipes. You can easily spend a few hours just exclaiming over the elegance of each image offered. Clearly Jacques Torres is a sculptor who has chosen food and most often chocolate as the tools for his invention. It becomes somehow flattering to think that he's put instructions along side his artwork in order to encourage us to copy him - as if we could! And then again, when my husband served his second tarte tatin attempt to guests one of them cried "I've died and gone to heaven!". The Dessert Circus helps to sprinkle a bit of icing sugar on all of us, whether we've baked before or not.

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