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Nick Malgieri is one smart cookie. He opens Chocolate with information about all the basics on our favorite sweet's history and production He then moves right into 360 recipes

Chocolate provides recipes for every intensity of chocolove and all levels of culinary skills. There are simple mix-bake-cut cakes, a mud-rich fudge sauce that hardens on ice cream, a collection of ice creams to go with it, and a killer Rich Chocolate Mousse.

Any comfortable cook, particularly one who's mastered the techniques in How to Bake, Great Italian Desserts, and Malgieri's other equally clear and precise works, can turn out Cream Puff Truffles, Chocolate Brownie Tart, a French Buche de Noel, and most of the other recipes in this dessert-lover's dream book.

Dedicated amateurs and professional cooks will appreciate Malgieri's explicit guidance for the process of tempering, which is necessary for making certain chocolate confections, and the recipes for European-style molded confections such as liqueur-filled cordials, and hand-dipped masterpieces, including Raspberry Tricolors. Less ambitious chocoholics might attempt the 26 kinds of truffles or play with Chocolate Plastic for making decorations. And no one should miss Chocolate's final chapter, the over-the-top "Showpieces and Decorating Projects."

This book is lavish with color photos. The chapter openings, shot with the artistry of Irving Penn still lifes, are so breathtaking you can taste them. --Dana Jacobi.
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The Food Network's Bob Blumer is called the Surreal Gourmet for good reason: he's an artist when it comes to creating dishes as fun and delicious to look at as they are to eat. Ceci n'est pas your ordinary party fare, but an array of 50 little mouthwatering masterpieces. With recipes such as Coconut Shrimp Lollypops (skewered shrimp with an amazing apricot dipping sauce), Chinese Snow Cones (wontons stuffed with chicken salad and ginger vinaigrette), and the ingenious and very adult S'more Shooters (amaretto hot chocolate with roasted marshmallows), guests will be abuzz about the food all the way home. Complete with tips and techniques, including shortcuts and prep times, as well as whimsical presentation ideas and Bob's quintessential suggestions for music to cook by, each cocktail bite is simple enough for the home cook and memorable enough to become addictive. With Surreal Gourmet Bites, the food will be the life of the party..
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47 incredible Broadway selections from over 25 shows - from the classic to contemporary stage. Songs include: All I Ask of You * Cabaret * Camelot * Climb Ev'ry Mountain * Comedy Tonight * Don't Cry for Me Argentina * Hello, Dolly! * I Dreamed a Dream * Maria * Memory * Oklahoma! * Seventy-Six Trombones * and many more!.
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Ultimate Wedding Showstoppers contains 81 wedding favorites including: Evergreen (Love Theme from A Star Is Born) * Forever I Do (The Wedding Song) * From This Moment On * I Do (Paul Brandt) * I Swear (All-4-One) * Let It Be Me (Je T' Appartiens) * Love Like Ours * This I Promise You * Tonight I Celebrate My Love * Two Hearts * The Vows Go Unbroken (Always True to You) * Wedding Song (There Is Love) * What a Difference You've Made in My Life * You're the Inspiration and many more..
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Each book in this series begins with a two-color, eight-page foreword containing history and photographs, followed by more than 300 pages of the best titles from the Warner Bros. Publications catalog. Ultimate Big Band & Swing Showstoppers is a swingin' collection of all the best tunes from big bands such as Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington, The Dorsey Brothers, Count Basie and others. More than 100 titles including: Ain't Misbehavin' * Begin the Beguine * Chattanooga Choo Choo * Don't Get Around Much Anymore * Get Happy * Goody Goody * I've Got You Under My Skin * It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) * Jeepers Creepers * Jumpin' at the Woodside * Love Walked In * Lullaby of Broadway * The More I See You* Pennsylvania 6-5000 * Smoke Gets in Your Eyes * Stompin' at the Savoy *You'll Never Know * You're the Top and many, many more..
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Each book in this series begins with a two-color, eight-page foreword containing history and photographs, followed by more than 300 pages of the best titles from the Warner Bros. Publications catalog. Ultimate Romantic Showstoppers is a compilation of the most favorite love songs ever, including: As Time Goes By * Betcha by Golly Wow * Could It Be I'm Falling in Love * Don't Know Much * Europa * Feel Like Makin' Love * I Only Have Eyes for You * I've Got Love on My Mind * Lady * Misty * Strangers in the Night * Words Get in the Way * You Are Everything and many more!.
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It’s not just a street anymore—it’s a genre of its own, and it’s celebrated in Tom Shea’s Broadway’s Most Wanted™: The Top 10 Book of Dynamic Divas, Surefire Showstoppers, and Box-Office Busts. Part of Potomac's popular Most Wanted™ series, Broadway’s Most Wanted™ sings the praises of musical theater with a dash of whimsy thrown in. Shea honors those who have made musical theater what it is today—the good, the bad, and the ugly. Oh, the ugly! When a show hits gold, the world’s a wonderful place, but a bomb is just as precious and enjoyable in its own perverse way. With more than forty top-ten lists packed full of fun and facts, Shea shows you the best—and worst—that Broadway, off-Broadway, and the rest of the musical theater has to offer.

So while you learn about the amazing people behind the hit Bye Bye Birdie, including the incomparable Chita Rivera, you’ll also read about the ill-fated and laughable Bring Back Birdie, which quickly indicated why Broadway doesn’t do sequels (especially twenty years after the original). While chuckling over how Jimmy Durante and Ethel Merman bickered over top billing for 1936’s Red, Hot, and Blue—with the comical result of their names being written diagonally, crossing in an X—you’ll also find praise for Paul Ford, Stephen Sondheim’s rehearsal pianist, who helps the legendary composer bring his music to life. Musicals run the gamut of topics, and Shea waxes melodic on political, western, rock and roll, and comic-book musicals, plus so much more. They say the neon lights are bright on Broadway; Tom Shea shines just as brightly with Broadway’s Most Wanted™: The Top 10 Book of Dynamic Divas, Surefire Showstoppers, and Box-Office Busts..
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Ninety-three gospel and inspirational songs, from popular titles to standards, and even a few hymns. Includes: Amazing Grace
* Angels
* Butterfly Kisses
* El Shaddai
* Flood
* From a Distance
* How Great Thou Art!
* Great Day
* I Saw the Light
* Let Us Break Bread Together
* My Tribute
* Pass It On
* Whispering Hope..
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