Please join us for a lovely evening discussion and dinner with James Beard Award winner, Dorie Greenspan, at Bartolotta’s Lake Park Bistro, located at 3133 E. Newberry Blvd. in Milwaukee. Tickets are $95 (plus tax and gratuity) and include admission for one to the discussion and talk, and an autographed hardcover of Greenspan’s latest irresistible collection of radically simple desserts from French home cooks to pastry chefs, Baking Chez Moi: Recipes from My Paris Home to Your Home Anywhere. For… Show more more information and to reserve tickets, please call Lake Park Bistro: (414) 962-6300. This event is co-sponsored by Wisconsin Foodie.
A “culinary guru” and author of the award-winning Around My French Table and Baking: From My Home to Yours, Dorie Greenspan returns with Baking Chez Moi: From My Paris Home to Your Home Anywhere, an irresistible collection of radically simple desserts from French home cooks and pastry chefs. With her groundbreaking bestseller Around My French Table, Dorie Greenspan changed the way we view French food. Now, in Baking Chez Moi, she explores the fascinating world of French desserts, bringing together a charmingly uncomplicated mix of contemporary recipes, including original creations based on traditional and regional specialties, and drawing on seasonal ingredients, market visits, and her travels throughout the country.
Like the surprisingly easy chocolate loaf cake speckled with cubes of dark chocolate that have been melted, salted, and frozen, which she adapted from a French chef’s recipe, or the boozy, slow-roasted pineapple, a five-ingredient cinch that she got from her hairdresser, these recipes show the French knack for elegant simplicity. In fact, many are so radically easy that they defy our preconceptions: crackle-topped cream puffs, which are all the rage in Paris; custardy apple squares from Normandy; and an unbaked confection of corn flakes, dried cherries, almonds, and coconut that nearly every French woman knows. Whether it’s classic lemon-glazed madeleines, a silky caramel tart, or “Les Whoopie Pies,” Dorie puts her own creative spin on each dish, guiding us with the friendly, reassuring directions that have won her legions of ardent fans.
About the Author: Inducted into the James Beard Foundation’s Who’s Who of Food and Beverage in America, Dorie Greenspan was tapped by Julia Child to write The New York Times bestseller Baking with Julia. She is the author of Baking: From My Home to Yours, a James Beard Award winner, and Around My French Table, a New York Times bestseller that was named Cookbook of the Year by the International Association of Culinary Professionals. Her blog, www.doriegreenspan.com, was singled out as one of the top fifty food blogs in the world by The Times of London. She also co-authored Desserts by Pierre Hermé, which won an IACP Award. She lives in Westbrook, Connecticut; New York City; and Paris.
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