Gordon Ramsay's Just Desserts
by Gordon Ramsay, Roz Denny
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Author: Gordon Ramsay, Roz DennyPhotographer: Georgia Glynn Smith
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2003-09
ISBN: 159223111X
Number of pages: 224
Publisher: Laurel Glen Publishing
Summary of Gordon Ramsay's Just Desserts
"Life is uncertain ... eat dessert first," says three-star Michelin chef Gordon Ramsay in the first line of Just Desserts. Based on recipes developed at his critically acclaimed London restaurants, the book features Ramsay?s classical methods and flair for teaching the basics and beyond. Even complex desserts are made simple with variations to suit the occasion. The first few chapters deal with simpler methods, like roasting fruit to draw out the natural essence or rolling out classic cookies. Then Ramsay takes cooks step-by-step through delicate pastry techniques, expanding their range until they have the confidence to whip up towering souffles that defy gravity. 110 sumptuous color photos accompany these 100 exceptional desserts.Gordon Ramsay's Just Desserts is a very fine book of last courses from energetic three-star Michelin chef Gordon Ramsay, expertly marshaled 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, caramelizing it for greater intensity of flavor; or he might deep-fry it, as in the elegant and fantastically nonchalant Fruit Tempura. Asian flavors appear in ethereal dishes like the Thai Rice Pudding with Coconut and Lemon or Banana and Passion Fruit Sorbet. Cheesecake is light and flavored with pumpkin. Proper homage is paid to comfort food, with recipes for Bread and Butter Pudding (Ramsay makes his with a baguette and laces it with Baileys Irish Cream) 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, are particularly lucid. The professional mysteries of the mousse, the parfait, the bavarois, and the various manifestations of the meringue are made wonderfully clear. --Robin Davidson, Amazon.co.uk
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