by Mark Christian | Aug 2, 2009 | Top Shelf |
Bookcase Location: TOP SHELF – Essential Dr. Maricel Presilla is largely responsible for putting premium chocolate on the map in the USA. Arguably our finest public educator, if there were only one book to have on the subject, this would probably be it. New...
by Mark Christian | Aug 2, 2009 | Middle Shelf |
Bookcase Location: MIDDLE SHELF – Permanent Collection Bertrand Russell listed a couple motives for reading a book: either enjoyment or to boast about it. He might’ve added a 3rd: for learning…. on what to avoid reading in the future. No matter what stack...
by Mark Christian | Aug 2, 2009 | Off The Shelf |
Bookcase Location: OFF-THE-SHELF: Book-Burners’ Fuel for the Bonfire Clay Gordon knows some about chocolate. For years he promoted himself as North America’s 1st chocolate critic & created the Chocophile website. Once he sat on a panel that exhibited the...
by Mark Christian | Aug 2, 2009 | Top Shelf |
Bookcase Location: TOP SHELF – Essential Get it Here Both an academic & popular title, True History is an authoritative social account of cacáo & a compendium of the tree’s rich lore & voyage from the Americas to global phenomenon. Literally &...
by Mark Christian | Aug 2, 2009 | Middle Shelf |
Bookcase Location: MIDDLE SHELF – Permanent Collection OK, the alliterative subtitle may be tripp-indued, but this book brings the facts & laughs. Chris Kilham is a medicine hunter, trekking the wilds in search of potions to return to civilization like a...
by Mark Christian | Aug 2, 2009 | Off The Shelf |
Bookcase Location: OFF-THE-SHELF: Book-Burners’ Fuel for the Bonfire Frou-frou from the doyenne of good taste – a li’l ol’ lacey brown & pink etiquette manual instructing the fine art of French-kissing your bonbons. How to spoon out ganache with...
by Mark Christian | Aug 2, 2009 | Off The Shelf |
Bookcase Location: OFF-THE-SHELF: Book-Burners’ Fuel for the Bonfire Great title – where’d that come from? The authors are first-rate cut ‘n paste artists (with the ‘interwebs’, who isn’t?). Unlike Ivy League students, who now consider it a minor technicality,...
by Mark Christian | Aug 2, 2009 | Bottom Shelf |
Bookcase Location: BOTTOM SHELF – Honorable Mention Oozes forth pinker & frothier than that staple of upmarket restaurants in the late 20th century – the molten chocolate cake. Easy to picture this guy laced up with the apron on, swirling & twirling...
by Mark Christian | Aug 2, 2009 | Bottom Shelf |
Bookcase Location: BOTTOM SHELF – Honorable Mention A weighty collection of essays from esteemed scholars, employing a multi-disciplinary / inter-departmental approach. Spanning agronomy to archeology & anthropology, Chilies to Chocolate covers the broad...
by Mark Christian | Aug 2, 2009 | Bottom Shelf |
Bookcase Location: BOTTOM SHELF – Honorable Mention A behind-the-scenes investigative report on the state of chocolate around the world… at the turn of the millennium. Mort Rosenblum is a journalist, wordsmith, & transplanted food-hound living among...
