Grand Finales The Art of the Plated Dessert

by Boyle, Tish; Moriarty, Timothy

• ISBN13: 9780471287698
• ISBN10: 0471287695
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-10-29
• Publisher: WILEY

Summary

Grand Finales does for pastry-making what no other books has attempted to do - it is the first one to examine the creative processes behind developing desserts with full colour photos. Also explores the principles, formula developments and presentation.

Author Biography

TISH BOYLE is food editor of Chocolatier and Pastry Art & Design magazines. A graduate of Smith College and La Varenne École de Cuisine in Paris, Tish has had such varied occupations as truck dispatcher, chef on tourist barges in Burgundy and Bordeaux, caterer, pastry chef, food stylist, and editor at Good Housekeeping magazine. A former freelance recipe developer, she has developed recipes for corporations such as T.J. Lipton as well as various food magazines. TIMOTHY MORIARTY is features editor of Chocolatier magazine as well as Pastry Art & Design, both published by the Haymarket Group in New York. In his fourteen years as a magazine editor, Tim has been editor-in-chief and founding editor of several consumer magazines, covering such topics as health, fitness, computer software, and cinema. He is the author of dozens of nonfiction articles and short stories, and his first novel, Vampire Nights, was published in 1989 by Pinnacle Books. Tim, his wife, and two sons live in Westchester, NY.

Table of Contents

Recipe Contents	ix
Preface	xiii
Introductionalism	1	(8)
Neo-classicism	9	(36)
Minimalism	45	(30)
Illusionism	75	(38)
Architecturalism	113	(38)
Impressionism	151	(44)
Modernism	195	(34)
Preformance Art	229	(32)
Eclecticism	261	(38)
Fusionism	299	(34)
Bibliography	333	(2)
Index	335