David Lebovitz

An acclaimed pastry chef, bestselling cookbook author, and creator of a massively popular blog, chronicles his life in Paris—from the delicious to the ridiculous. David Lebovitz moved to Paris in 2002 to start a new life. After cramming all his worldly belongings into three suitcases, he arrived, hopes high, at his new apartment near the Bastille. But as this career pastry chef and cookbook author would soon learn, it’s a different world en France. From the illogical) rules of social conduct to the mysteries of men's footwear, from shopkeepers who work so hard not to sell you anything to the nightmare of unchecked bureaucracy and the arcane etiquette of the cheese plate, here is Lebovitz’s story of how he came to fall in love with—and even understand—this glorious, maddening city. With more than fifty original recipes, The Sweet Life in Paris is a deliciously funny, offbeat, and irreverent look at the city of lights, chocolate, and cheese.

Delicious Adventures in the World's Most Glorious - and Perplexing - City

The Sweet Life in Paris

A selection of 100 sweet and savory French-inspired recipes from a Chez Panisse pastry chef-turned-popular food blogger complements recipes culled from the ethnic neighborhoods of Paris with lighthearted stories about the quirks, trials and joys of cooking in modern France. 50,000 first printing.

Recipes and Stories

My Paris Kitchen

Presents a generous assortment of more than two hundred taste-tempting recipes for homemade ice creams, granitas, sorbets, and accompaniments, including a variety of international specialties, classic favorites, and innovative new treats that range from Chocolate Sorbet to Mojito Granita, as well as a host of sauces, crunchy toppings, and tempting mix-ins.

Ice Creams, Sorbets, Granitas, and Sweet Accompaniments

The Perfect Scoop

"A chef buys an apartment in Paris and endures the headaches and excitement of renovating his own corner of paradise in the City of Light"--

The Delights and Disasters of Making My Paris Home

L'appart

A treasury of 150 top-selected cake, cookie and pastry recipes from the past decade places an emphasis on fresh and seasonal ingredients and is complemented by 10 previously unpublished recipes and images by a James Beard Award-winning photographer.

My Best Recipes

Ready for Dessert

The New York Times bestselling author of My Paris Kitchen serves up more than 160 recipes for trendy cocktails, quintessential apéritifs, café favorites, complementary snacks, and more. Bestselling cookbook author, memoirist, and popular blogger David Lebovitz delves into the drinking culture of France in Drinking French. This beautifully photographed collection features 160 recipes for everything from coffee, hot chocolate, and tea to Kir and regional apéritifs, classic and modern cocktails from the hottest Paris bars, and creative infusions using fresh fruit and French liqueurs. And because the French can't imagine drinking without having something to eat alongside, David includes crispy, salty snacks to serve with your concoctions. Each recipe is accompanied by David's witty and informative stories about the ins and outs of life in France, as well as photographs taken on location in Paris and beyond. Whether you have a trip to France booked and want to know what and where to drink, or just want to infuse your next get-together with a little French flair, this rich and revealing guide will make you the toast of the town.

The Iconic Cocktails, Apéritifs, and Café Traditions of France, with 160 Recipes

Drinking French

A collection of classical and unusual fruit dessert recipes features options that utilize natural flavors and uncomplicated preparations, and includes such dishes as berry cobbler, apple cranberry crisp, and cherry chocolate fruitcake.

100 Outstanding Desserts with Fruit--Inside, Outside, Alongside

Ripe for Dessert

ice creams, sorbets, granitas, and sweet accompaniments

The perfect scoop

Delicious Adventures in the World's Most Glorious by David Lebovitz By David Lebovitz

Delicious Adventures in the World's Most Glorious by David Lebovitz

Provides recipes along with information on ingredients and cooking utensils and equipment

110 Recipes for Cakes, Custards, Souffles, Tarts, Pies, Cobblers, Sorbets, Sherbets, Ice Creams, Cookies, Candies, and Cordials

Room For Dessert

Pastry chef David Lebovitz is known for creating desserts with bold and high-impact flavor, not fussy, complicated presentations. Lucky for us, this translates into showstopping sweets that bakers of all skill levels can master. In Ready for Dessert, elegant finales such as Gâteau Victoire, Black Currant Tea Crème Brûlée, and Anise-Orange Ice Cream Profiteroles with Chocolate Sauce are as easy to prepare as comfort foods such as Plum-Blueberry Upside-Down Cake, Creamy Rice Pudding, and Cheesecake Brownies. With his unique brand of humor—and a fondness for desserts with “screaming chocolate intensity”—David serves up a tantalizing array of more than 170 recipes for cakes, pies, tarts, crisps, cobblers, custards, soufflés, puddings, ice creams, sherbets, sorbets, cookies, candies, dessert sauces, fruit preserves, and even homemade liqueurs. David reveals his three favorites: a deeply spiced Fresh Ginger Cake; the bracing and beautiful Champagne Gelée with Kumquats, Grapefruits, and Blood Oranges; and his chunky and chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies. His trademark friendly guidance, as well as suggestions, storage advice, flavor variations, and tips will help ensure success every time. Accompanied with stunning photos by award-winning photographer Maren Caruso, this new compilation of David’s best recipes to date will inspire you to pull out your sugar bin and get baking or churn up a batch of homemade ice cream. So if you’re ready for dessert (and who isn’t?), you’ll be happy to have this collection of sweet indulgences on your kitchen shelf—and your guests will be overjoyed, too.

My Best Recipes [A Baking Book]

Ripe, seasonal fruits, fragrant vanilla, toasted nuts and spices… Every luscious flavour imaginable is grist for the chill in The Perfect Scoop, pastry chef David Lebovitz’s gorgeous guide to the pleasures of homemade ice creams, sorbets, granitas and more. Chocolate or strawberry sorbet? Orange popscicle or rum and raisin ice cream? Mojito granita or sweet potato ice cream with maple glazed pecans? This collection of frozen treats ranges from the classic and the comforting to the cutting edge. All come with an emphasis on intense and sophisticated flavours, and are served with a bountiful helping of the author’s expert techniques. As well as easy-to-follow recipes for a dazzling range of ice creams, sorbets and granitas, The Perfect Scoop features irresistible toppings and sauces –from classic hot fudge to exotic candied red beans and cajeta (a Mexican form of caramel)– and mouth-watering mix-ins, such as chocolate chip cookie dough, buttercrunch toffee and honey-sesame brittle. The author blurs the line between sweet and savoury, recommending ice creams made of intriguing ingredients like parsley, basil, black pepper or avocado, and offers an array of innovative serving suggestions. With an essential equipment overview, advice on what to look for when purchasing ingredients specifically for use in frozen desserts, and expert technical advice, this oh-so-cool book contains all the info you’ll ever need on how to create the perfect scoop.

Ice Creams, Sorbets, Granitas and Sweet Accompaniments

Perfect Scoop

A revised and updated edition of the best-selling ice cream book, featuring a dozen new recipes, a fresh design, and all-new photography. This comprehensive collection of homemade ice creams, sorbets, gelatos, granitas, and accompaniments from New York Times best-selling cookbook author and blogger David Lebovitz emphasizes classic and sophisticated flavors alongside a bountiful helping of personality and proven technique. David's frozen favorites range from classic (Chocolate-Peanut Butter) to comforting (S'mores Ice Cream) and contemporary (Lavender-Honey) to cutting-edge (Labneh Ice Cream with Pistachio-Sesame Brittle). Also appearing is a brand new selection of frozen cocktails, including a Negroni Slush and Spritz Sorbet, and an indulgent series of sauces, toppings, and mix-ins to turn a simple treat into a perfect scoop of delight.

200 Recipes for Ice Creams, Sorbets, Gelatos, Granitas, and Sweet Accompaniments [A Cookbook]

The Perfect Scoop, Revised and Updated

Ripe, seasonal fruits, fragrant vanilla, toasted nuts and spices, every luscious flavour imaginable is grist for the chill in The Perfect Scoop, pastry chef David Lebovitz's gorgeous guide to the pleasures of homemade ice creams, sorbets, granitas and more. This collection of frozen treats ranges from the classic and the comforting to the cutting edge. All come with an emphasis on intense and sophisticated flavours, and are served with a bountiful helping of the author's expert techniques. The Perfect Scoop also features irresistible toppings and sauces ranging from classic hot fudge to exotic candied red beans and cajeta (a Mexican form of caramel), and mouth-watering mix-ins like chocolate chip cookie dough, buttercrunch toffee, and honey-sesame brittle. With an essential equipment overview, advice on what to look for when purchasing ingredients, and expert technical advice, this oh-so-cool book contains all the info you'll ever need on how to create the perfect scoop.

From the New York Times bestselling author of My Paris Kitchen and L'Appart, a deliciously funny, offbeat, and irreverent look at the city of lights, cheese, chocolate, and other confections. Like so many others, David Lebovitz dreamed about living in Paris ever since he first visited the city and after a nearly two-decade career as a pastry chef and cookbook author, he finally moved to Paris to start a new life. Having crammed all his worldly belongings into three suitcases, he arrived, hopes high, at his new apartment in the lively Bastille neighborhood. But he soon discovered it's a different world en France. From learning the ironclad rules of social conduct to the mysteries of men's footwear, from shopkeepers who work so hard not to sell you anything to the etiquette of working the right way around the cheese plate, here is David's story of how he came to fall in love with—and even understand—this glorious, yet sometimes maddening, city. When did he realize he had morphed into un vrai parisien? It might have been when he found himself considering a purchase of men's dress socks with cartoon characters on them. Or perhaps the time he went to a bank with 135 euros in hand to make a 134-euro payment, was told the bank had no change that day, and thought it was completely normal. Or when he found himself dressing up to take out the garbage because he had come to accept that in Paris appearances and image mean everything. Once you stop laughing, the more than fifty original recipes, for dishes both savory and sweet, such as Pork Loin with Brown Sugar–Bourbon Glaze, Braised Turkey in Beaujolais Nouveau with Prunes, Bacon and Bleu Cheese Cake, Chocolate-Coconut Marshmallows, Chocolate Spice Bread, Lemon-Glazed Madeleines, and Mocha–Crème Fraîche Cake, will have you running to the kitchen for your own taste of Parisian living.

Assim como muitos de nós, David Lebovitz sonhava viver em Paris desde sua primeira visita à cidade nos anos 80. Finalmente, depois de quase duas décadas de carreira como chefe confeiteiro e autor de livros de gastronomia, incluindo 12 anos no aclamado Chez Panisse de Alice Waters, ele se mudou para a Cidade Luz para começar uma nova vida. Com apenas três malas ele chegou, com grandes expectativas, ao seu novo apartamento no animado bairro da Bastilha. Mas logo ele descobriu que o mundo "en France" é bem diferente. Desde regras sociais sem muito sentido aos mistérios que envolvem a moda masculina de sapatos, de atendentes de lojas que trabalham duro para não lhe vender ao pesadelo da burocracia de alguns serviços e das regras secretas que envolvem os pratos de queijo, esta é a história de como Lebovitz se apaixonou – e até compreendeu – está gloriosa e enlouquecedora cidade.

A doce vida em paris

A chocoholic's odyssey through the taste-tempting world of chocolate describes the process of making chocolate from cacao bean to finished product, profiles the world's top chocolatiers, shares dozens of fascinating bits of trivia, and presents more than thirty favorite chocolate recipes, from Black-Bottom Cupcakes to Homemade Rocky Road Candy. Original.

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